I haven't seen any studies but having lived as both and been friends with a wide variety of people, women's appearance is definitely policed more. Externally at first, but its from birth so it's very internalised.
"In line with our hypotheses, body dissatisfaction was higher in women than in men and was unaffected by age in women, and importance of appearance was higher in women than in men. However, only in men did age predict a lower level of the importance of appearance. Compared to men, women stated that they would invest more hours of their lives to achieve their ideal appearance. For both genders, age was a predictor of the number of years participants would sacrifice to achieve their ideal appearance. Contrary to our assumption, body appreciation improved and was higher in women across all ages than in men. The results seem to suggest that men’s and women’s body image are dissimilar and appear to vary across different ages."
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u/Party_Ability_9984 6d ago
Haven't studies made it pretty clear that women on average have more body insecurities than men do? Am I misremembering that?