Women’s faces are considered more attractive than men’s

A recent scientific study revealed that women’s faces are rated as more attractive than men’s faces in general, even by women themselves, in a phenomenon that researchers described as the “gender attractiveness gap.”

According to the study, which was conducted on the largest global database of facial attractiveness evaluations, and included more than 1.5 million evaluations of 17,000 faces from about 30,000 participants in 76 countries, the average evaluation of a female face is higher than about 60% of male faces.

Dr. Eugene Vasilievitzky, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Aesthetics in Germany, said that the results show that “women’s faces are evaluated as more attractive across different cultures,” noting that what is striking is that women give the highest evaluations to the faces of other women, and the lowest evaluations are often to the faces of men.

The study showed that the size of the attractiveness gap is clearer in Western countries, with slight differences depending on the sexual orientation of the participants, but it remains generally present among different groups.

The researchers attributed part of this difference to differences in facial structure, as men tend to have more angular and elongated faces, while women’s faces are more rounded, which seems to be more visually acceptable to both sexes.

However, the study did not determine the final causes of this phenomenon, indicating that it may be linked to evolutionary factors or child-like features, such as the roundness of the face.

The results also showed that the gap in evaluation of attractiveness gradually decreases with age, almost disappearing at the age of eighty, as the features of men and women become more similar, which reduces the differences in aesthetic evaluation between them.