Women's sizes in jeans compared to inches of men?

Cigam
I wear 29" jeans, but can wear a couple of inches smaller but rarely ever see a 28" or 27" in mens. But I always found it weird that men have inches for jeans whereas women have 'sizes'. So in womens sizes I am a 6 or 8. I was just wondering why women don't just have inches like men. Or why men don't just have sizes like women?

Womens waists are 3 inches higher than mens, or so I have heard, especially when getting measurements. Kind of as depicted on this page:

jeans-and-accessories.com/jeans-sizes.html

clickable: link

And mentioned on that page, depending on the manufacturer the jean size can be +/- 1 or 2 inches in the waist and +/- 1 inch in length.

Here is a nice chart list of various sizes:

soleandblues.com/sizing-chart

clickable: link

And here is a page that talks about converting from womens jeans to mens, it also had a shoe conversion as well:

hanksclothing.com/womensconversion.html

clickable: link

Add 21 to the womens size jean to get the mens inches jean.

If you wear a ladies size 12 jean you would try a men's size 33" waist. 12+21=33"

For shoes, to convert a women's size to a men's size subtract 1 1/2 sizes from the ladies. So a size 9 1/2 in women's would be an 8 in a men's.

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So what do yall think about this?

and which would you prefer?
Keep things the way they are. Women-Sizes / Men-Inches
Goto only sizes.
Goto only inches.
Have both sizes and inches, for both women and men.
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Women's sizes in jeans compared to inches of men?
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