Women do not want a tall man specifically, they want a man who is not insecure about his height

The real attraction signal around height is not the number itself. Women are drawn away from insecurity, and shorter men are statistically more likely to carry insecurity about their height, which is why taller men tend to get better results on average. It is not the height doing the work. It is the absence of insecurity. A man below average height who carries zero insecurity about it is still attractive. The same principle applies to money: women are not attracted to a specific bank balance. They are attracted to ambition, purpose, and a winner's mindset. The money and the height are just common proxies that tend to correlate with those underlying qualities.