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There is some evidence of a feminization of women, albeit much weaker evidence than in the case of men. For example, the onset of puberty has receded from 16.5 years in 1880 to 12.5 years in the U.S.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15795887</ref> | There is some evidence of a feminization of women, albeit much weaker evidence than in the case of men. For example, the onset of puberty has receded from 16.5 years in 1880 to 12.5 years in the U.S.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15795887</ref> | ||
Females who experience puberty earlier have an earlier onset of anxiety disorders, i.e. higher neuroticism, which is a sexually dimorphic feature, and thus should be expected to increase with a secular feminization of women.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933816300931</ref> However, there was no secular trend in adult crying propensity between 1981 and 1996 for either sex,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior</ref> which suggests this relation may only apply to inter-individual differences, rather than secular trends in pubertal timing, however, the secular changes may be too slow to be easily measurable within such a short time period. There is overall a secular trend in the prevalence of depression, affecting both genders equally.<ref name="wein2017"></ref> Women have also experienced a decline in orgasmic frequency over the recent years,<ref>Kontula, O., & Miettinen, A. (2016). ''Determinants of female sexual orgasms.'' Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, 6(1), 31624. [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087699/ Abstract]]</ref> with women generally having a lower [[sex drive]], hence this could be regarded as femininization. [[Life history]] speed has slowed for both sexes, with slower LH tending to be female trait in general. Obesity is on the rise as well for both sexes,<ref>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight</ref> with overweight also being sexually dimorphic to some extent, as evidenced by women having more subcutaneous fat and a higher prevalence of overweight. In popular press and [[lookism]] forums, anecdotes have been widely reported about women's [[boobs|secondary sex characteristics]] having become more pronounced over time. Indeed, secular trends in bust circumference have been documented in the U.S. and Great Britain and may hint at increased breast size, however this trend might also be explained by the obesity epidemic.<ref>https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/933/7/JASs.pdf</ref> | Females who experience puberty earlier have an earlier onset of anxiety disorders, i.e. higher neuroticism, which is a sexually dimorphic feature, and thus should be expected to increase with a secular feminization of women.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933816300931</ref> However, there was no secular trend in adult crying propensity between 1981 and 1996 for either sex,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior</ref> which suggests this relation may only apply to inter-individual differences, rather than secular trends in pubertal timing, however, the secular changes may be too slow to be easily measurable within such a short time period. There is overall a secular trend in the prevalence of depression, affecting both genders equally.<ref name="wein2017"></ref> Women have also experienced a decline in orgasmic frequency over the recent years,<ref>Kontula, O., & Miettinen, A. (2016). ''Determinants of female sexual orgasms.'' Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, 6(1), 31624. [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087699/ Abstract]]</ref> with women generally having a lower [[sex drive]], hence this could be regarded as femininization. [[Life history]] speed has slowed for both sexes, with slower LH tending to be female trait in general. Obesity is on the rise as well for both sexes,<ref>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight</ref> with overweight also being sexually dimorphic to some extent, as evidenced by women having more subcutaneous fat and a higher prevalence of overweight. In popular press and [[lookism]] forums, anecdotes have been widely reported about women's [[boobs|secondary sex characteristics]] having become more pronounced over time. Indeed, secular trends in bust circumference have been documented in the U.S. and Great Britain and may hint at increased breast size, however this trend might also be explained by the obesity epidemic.<ref name="brown2016">https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/933/7/JASs.pdf</ref> | ||
The rate of breast cancer has also increased recently,<ref>https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html</ref> but breast cancer and breast volume are not consistently linked.<ref>https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-020-07499-5</ref> | The rate of breast cancer has also increased recently,<ref>https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html</ref> but breast cancer and breast volume are not consistently linked.<ref>https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-020-07499-5</ref> | ||