Has there been any culture where men typically have longer hair than women?
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I believe there were some North American tribes where that was common, but I'm having trouble coming up with proof. There's surprisingly little writing on traditional native hairstyles for women, particularly in individual tribes.
However, its incontrovertible that many native men grew their hair as long as possible, so in their case it was at least as long as their women's.
Hair held great symbolic importance for men in many Native American tribes, especially in Western tribes like the Sioux and Blackfoot. Men in these tribes only cut their hair to show grief or shame,
If you happen to live somewhere near "Indian Country" (as I do), it is not entirely uncommon to see men of native extraction with very long braids today.
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I believe that in some cultures and some times it was considered immodest for women to show their bare hair in public. Thus women would wear their hair short enough to be covered up with hats or kerchiefs or whatever. If it wasn't considered shameful for men to show their hair, they might sometimes and some places have wore it longer than women.
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Hasidic Jews.
Nicholas I in 1851 forbid the practice of women shaving their heads (remember that Hasidic men do not cut their hair, so their hair is longer). hat tip to user6591 for correcting my error. Hasidic men do not cut their sidelocks, so on the aggregate, Hasidic men's hair is longer than that of Hasidic women (or at least those that practice the custom).
An article from a modern Hasidic Jew
Detroit Interfaith has perhaps a clearer version of the cultural practice
Some ultra-orthodox Jewish women shave their heads and wear only a kerchief (called a tichel) on their heads. It is a lot easier to cover a shaved head than it is to cover a full head of hair under a wig. Most Hasidic Jewish women wear wigs. Modern orthodox women might wear only a hat that covers only part of their hair.
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