What will women be like in 50 years? Futurologists are trying to answer this question today. The world does not stand still, evolution continues, women are changing too.
Will become more beautiful
In the future, women will be more and more beautiful. For example, a group of scientists from the University of Helsinki, led by Markus Jokel, came to this conclusion.
The researchers found a consistent trend: beautiful women, on average, give birth to 16% more children, and their children will also be beautiful. This is especially true for the female sex.
Scientists have concluded that the trend towards an increase in the number of beautiful women is increasing with each new generation. At the same time, the trend does not apply to men.
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Even if both parents are outwardly attractive, a recent study by evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics Satoshi Kanazama has shown that their chances of having a baby are higher than average. The difference is about 26%. Thus, in 50 years, the gender ratio in the world is likely to become even more pronounced - there will be more women than men.
Become lower
Despite the fact that since the beginning of the 20th century, both men and women have been experiencing acceleration processes, not all scientists agree that women will be taller in the future than they are today.
Thus, a specialist in evolutionary processes, professor of biology at Yale University Stephen Stearns, together with his team, conducted a study proving that women in the future will become shorter and heavier.
Stearns' team examined 14 thousand medical records of residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts.
Scientists drew attention to the fact that such indicators of women as weight, height, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and other indicators directly depended on the number of children of the studied women.
The study led to an unexpected conclusion: shorter and heavier women gave birth to more children than "light" and tall ones.
If this trend continues, then in the coming years the average height of a woman will decrease by 2 centimeters, and the average weight will grow by 1 kg against the current one. The woman of the future will give birth to her first child on average 5 months earlier than now, and menopause will be postponed by 10 months.
Will become similar to each other
Scientists agree that modern globalization, immigration and assimilation will lead to averaging of female features. Recessive signs such as freckles, blue and green eyes will become very rare.
Moreover, complete mixing of races may never occur. In particular, the evolution of the face will depend on many factors.
In some places where unique physical traits are adapted to the environment and therefore have a strong evolutionary advantage, trait change will occur more slowly. Where blonde hair and blue eyes are alien elements (for example, in America), they will quickly disappear as unnecessary.
Nevertheless, women, of course, will not become completely alike. Already today, it is possible to temporarily change the color of the hair, eyes, the shape of the face, and in the future, perhaps, the type of person can be programmed even at birth thanks to the development of genetic engineering and with the help of pigment-containing cells.
Will have more business impact
According to the forecasts of scientists, this century can be conventionally called the age of matriarchy. Women gained the opportunity to occupy important positions just a century ago, but year after year, the number of women in business and management is growing.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have concluded that women hold great promise as managers.
They made such a conclusion after observing the life of some villages in India, where women hold the posts of heads of local councils. It turned out that ladies care more about their fellow villagers and take less bribes than men.
Yet women are still seen as illogical and inconsistent in their decisions. Perhaps this is the influence of gender stereotypes, but the question of which world will be better: patriarchal and matriarchal is still “hanging in the air”.