According to psychoanalyst Karen Horney, males often envy the capacity of women to bear children, which she termed:

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Karen Horney believed that men experience a sense of inferiority and envy towards women due to their inability to bear children. She termed this as "womb envy." This concept is in contrast to Sigmund Freud's theory of "penis envy," where he believed that women feel inferior to men due to their lack of a penis.

According to Psychoanalyst Karen Horney, Males Often Envy the Capacity