- Author
- Robinette, K. | Churchill, T. | McConville, J. T.
- Title
- Comparison of Male and Female Body Sizes and Proportions. Technical Report.
- Coporate
- Anthropology Research Project, Inc., Yellow Springs, OH
- Sponsor
- Aerospace Medical Research Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
- Report
- AMRL-TR-79-69, July 1979, 32 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- F33615-78-C-0508
- Keywords
- males | females | human beings
- Abstract
- There has been, in the past few years, an increase in the diversity of occupational positions filled by women in the Air Force and the other military branches. As the opportunities increase, the workplace designer is faced more and more frequently with the problem of accommodating the female. Accompanying this problem is a need for documentation of true differences in body size and proportions between Air Force men and women. This report is an initial attempt at fulfilling this need. Utilizing the 1977 Army survey, because it is the only survey in which both military males and femaleswere measured at the same time and place, by the same measurers, and using the same measuring techniques and instruments, this study investigates two basic assumptions about the relationship between male and female body size and proportions. The first is the assumption that a female body size can be represented by scaling down the male body. The second is the assumption that females and males of approximately equal body weight and stature are approximately equal in all other proportions. The results of these investigations serve to pinpoint where differences occur and the magnitude of those differences. This should aid in determining the designs of changes in designs which will be necessary to accommodate the female.