Good Looks Hurt Women's Employment Chances, Study Finds
Too attractive to be a mechanical engineer? Photo: Adrianna Williams, Corbis
According to new research from the University of Colorado Denver Business School, beautiful women are passed over for certain "masculine" jobs because of their good looks, a university press release has announced.
(Read: "Certain jobs" does not mean Hooters waitress or supermodel.)
The study, published in the Journal of Social Psychology, reportedly found that good looks were a detriment to women applying for high-powered jobs such as director of finance or mechanical engineer.
"In these professions being attractive was highly detrimental to women," study co-author Stefanie Johnson, assistant professor of management at the business school, says in the statement.
"In every other kind of job, attractive women were preferred.
"This wasn't the case with men, which shows that there is still a double standard when it comes to gender."
Shocking, we know.
The "beauty is beastly" effect was pinpointed after study participants were asked to match photos of job applicants with a list of jobs. Attractive women were reportedly most often paired with "feminine sex-typed" jobs like receptionist.
But there is one silver lining, my pretties.
Johnson reportedly claims that attractive people tend to earn higher wages, better voter ratings, stronger performance evaluations, higher levels of college admissions, and more favorable trial judgments (um, yay?).
And in a recent Newsweek survey, good looks can help you score a raise.
Meanwhile, a recent study found that blondes earn more.
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Heidi, 8-09-2010, 8:35PM
Where do you writers get your info? Space?
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