i'm 5' 10", but i'm also swedish. in many places of the world, 5' 10" is tall. in sweden, it's actually roughly average, and maybe a little short.
my parents were both 5' 8', with my mom being slightly taller. my dad was from central europe - franco-italian in culture, with at least one miqmaq ancestor, but actually halstatt celt in genetic origin, which is austrian in today's terms. in fact, he died in his late 50s, but he looked like donald trump did/does in his 70s. but in my mother's family, the women, excluding my mother, are all 6' 2" or 6' 3". we would always be the shortest, by far, in a family get together. my aunts are both well over six feet, my grandmother is roughly 6 feet and my grandfather is about 6' 5". i have a full sister that's about an inch taller than me, and is very proud of it (because i'm about 4 years older).
it must be the swedish genes, right?
in fact, that's bullshit. we thought height was genetic because of mendel and the peas and the dominance and the ... , but we know now it's wrong. height is almost entirely plastic, and the actual reason that swedes are taller and italians are shorter is that swedes eat mostly fish and italians eat mostly grains. it's 99% diet. throughout history, the nomads were taller and bigger and stronger than the farmers simply because they ate better. and, in fact, they had bigger brains because they ate better, too. the barbarians were actually physiologically smarter than the settled peoples. that's why they won all the wars.
the actual startling, somewhat disgusting truth is that women have tended to be shorter than men because boys have been given more to eat. families have historically chosen not to feed their daughters sufficiently, because they were less valuable and not worth the resources. that is why women have tended to be shorter and why changes in culture to view boys and girls equally have resulted in the elimination of this falsely observed sexual dimorphism. it's not dimorphism at all, it's malnutrition.
if you're a grown woman today and you're 5' 2" or something, it's because you didn't get enough to eat growing up. you should be taller than that, but your growth was stunted by a poor diet as a young child. it might have been because your parents were poor and chose to feed your brother instead because he was more valuable, it might have been because they were conditioned not to feed you so you wouldn't get fat and it might have been because you were trained to choose to eat less and starve yourself. but you are short because you were stunted. you were malnourished, so you didn't grow. it's not genetics and it's not gender.