I only purchase men's pants/jeans and men's cargo shorts these days. XD

The theory is that manufacturers of women’s clothing have been sort of in cahoots with the handbag/purse people, and keep the tiny clothes pocket thing going to sell more purses. Might be some truth to that, at least it would explain the massive resistance against making women’s pockets bigger.

My dad doesn’t get it and he keeps complaining about how I either hold everything in my hand or carry purses or just bring nothing

I like, big POCKETS and I can not lie!

I'm irritated by that seam across the men's pocket at the height where the women's pocket ends. Fellow (hobby) seamsresses, do you have an explication for this ---on the inside? Looks to me as if there was more fabric but closed by that seam??

Women's sweats and pajama bottoms never have pockets. It's so lame.

My work jeans have pockets...just took me 2 years to learn they were sewn shut for some ungodly reason

This drives me insane. I want "real" pockets. I want to be able to put my phone in my pocket and feel secure. I don't want to feel like my phone is gonna fall out. So annoying. Ladies, we deserve pockets!

Technical Designer here - although most pocket sizing for women is indeed BS, when it comes to pants, the shorter pocket bag is due to fit. Women's pants are generally much tighter across the hips which means a larger pocket bag will compromise the fit (will get bunched up) and the pocket bag will be unusable anyway.

I think the reasons are to 1) objectify women and sexualize them even more than they already are and to 2) sell purses.

I've also heard that it's to force women to buy purses to keep stuff in then instead of the pockets. It's just downright useless and unnecessary.

I hate that women's clothes don't have pockets or much of a pocket my dad heard me complaining about it and said the reason I am mad about it is that my gram always made my pockets bigger or put pockets in my clothes because I refused to carry a purse

Give me pockets or give me death!

Maybe smaller but at least they are real pockets. What frustrates me is totally fake pockets!!!

All this time I believed my hands were big until this...

Lands End women's brands were a perfect fit for me. I had been buying them for years. Suddenly, the pockets changed. That was when they were bought by Sears.

Actually don't like pockets that are that deep but a bit deeper than woman's jeans

O don't want a pocket that low, i would make it dmaller, because it looks awfull.

And men's pants come in sizes that make sense. No clue what's am in women's, but definitely 27"32" in men's.

Since I retired, I now wear men's pants and shirts because they have usable pocket for my medical device (I'm diabetic) I am lucky that I know how to alter my clothes - add elastic to waist, remove elastic at ankles. Even women's hoodies with kangaroo pockets don't accommodate a small cellphone!

"This is a pair of them"

I feel like it's due to the pursh companies wanting you to purchase a, "place to store all your things?!"

I could be way off, but one thought is. Maybe to discourage us from putting our hands in our pockets? as it is not considered "lady like"

I work in medical so I just wear my scrub pants even when not at work. They're just baggy cargo pants with plenty of pockets.

Purses maybe

Can we normalize not putting back pockets on men's trousers/jeans? We sit on that, can't use it for anything. The back pockets with buttons are the worst.

We don’t want big baggy pockets on our tight and sexy jeans! Get a grip. You have a whole purse.

Cause they got a big old purse to carry their c**p in.

I am convinced that if enough women demanded pants with larger pockets, and then enough women actually bought them, they would be widely available. It's ridiculous to believe that there's some vast conspiracy to not put larger pockets in women's clothing. Clothing manufacturers are in business to make money.