Do you think beautiful women are better employed than "average looking" women?

Question

Coming from a country that capitalizes on the sending of laborers overseas for work to survive, I observed that some jobs and employment opportunities require very high physical standards. I'm not even talking about "entertainment" or "public relations". It seems that even blue-collared jobs like nursing and accountancy prefer attractive women as employees over normal, average women.

Why do you think this is happening? Isn't this some form of discrimination and/or bias? And what if a woman's ethnicity doesn't fit the cultural standard of beauty, do you think it's acceptable if she tries to "modify" her look to become better employed?

Answer 1

This has been studied for decades. Attractive people are more likely to get hired for jobs than non-attractive people, even if they have a very comparable skill level....and attractive women tend to get paid more, too.


Why? Because people are visual creatures. For some reason, prople are more likely to consider a person happy, accomplished, or capable if they are also attractive. Why? I've not the foggiest idea, but it probably comes down to sex and survival of the fittest.

I don't see why it should be unacceptable for a woman to alter her appearance in order to reach a goal she wants. It's her own body, after all. As long as she understands the risks of anything she does and goes out of her way to do them safely, more power to her! I think that it should always be done in a way that is helpful to the woman's overall person, though. If an overweight woman wants to lose weight to improve her chance of getting a job, great! She's healthier that way. If somebody who's already anorexic wants to lose 10 more pounds so that she can model, though, then she needs help and not any kind of criticism. The same goes for women who are addicted to plastic surgery.

Answer 2

There have been a lot of studies which suggest this is the case.
I would never suggest that a person try to modify their looks in order to fit the cultural standard of beauty, better employment or not.
What the studies rarely show is that a person who doesn't fit the csb is hireable and can make the money...

Answer 3

well i'll tell u a story of my cousin ...she is an engineer mechanics engineer ...after getting the job and becomming friends with the one who employed her ....ho told her that there was another candidate with the verysame qualifications but they chose her because she was" hotter " well that made me laugh and emmbarassed her for sure ...but its a fact that they go for the better looking one :)
well i know its not fair......but this is how it goes sometimes not every where.....u dont have to be beautiful to get a job ...u just have to be qualified like VERy qualified for the job
..... i think people have different tastes so u may look beautiful in1 persons eye and the other may think ur not....
well i dont think there is a problem that if u want to look better and "modify" the way u look but not for a job its better that u do iot for urself forfeeling good about ur self...i'm extra avarage :) and i dont think i should carry out some operation to look beautiful.....try to feel better about ur self...maybe make up and some new clothes will do the job..."dress to impress"
thats only my opinion wishh u good luck

Answer 4

I agree that attractive people do get better jobs and higher pay. It isn't fair, but it seems to be one of those age old facts of life. I don't know about different ethnicities. It seems most American men are fascinated by women of different ethnicities, so if it is a sex thing, they probably wouldn't descriminate in that sense.

Answer 5

I think so...I find myself in crap jobs because I'm not a bombshell with big breasts. It sucks because I have so much to offer any place of employment. I work hard, and learn quickly. Just because I don't buy expensive clothes or spend hours primping myself doesn't mean I shouldn't be fairly employed and paid.

Answer 6

i do not imagine thats honest. i'm alluring and skinny (and ineffective curiously :) and that i have not had a guy manage me decently in my existence! i imagine you'll get truly jaded about the entire element. a minimum of once you're frequent searching, you do not forget that someone likes you for YOU, no longer for what you look as if. i'm ill of each guy i meet basically hitting on me because they pick sex, no longer because they truly supply a d*mm about the variety of individual i'm! All i elect in a relationship is someone fantastic, variety, vivid, humorousness and integrity, that easily likes me. no longer a guy thats basically attempting to practice to himself/his friends that he can score with the nice and comfortable chick. perchance the subsequent time you meet an alluring lady, act good and variety and perchance ask her a question or 2 about herself. and do not attempt to leap instantly into mattress such as her. Its insulting and demeaning.

Answer 7

i agree