Newsweek magazine has a very interesting feature on its website about Beauty: A special report on why the quest to look good isn’t just a vain pursuit. From sexism to ageism to the perils of being too attractive, how beauty can affect your job, your career, your life.
The report cites studies with employers and employees to confirm earlier findings that more attractive individuals get hired more, earn more, and are considered to be more confident. Beauty's effect, however, lose their edge with age as older women are more stigmatized in certain industries than men.
Despite our convictions that we should be judged on our own merits and worth, in reality, how people feel when they look at us, and the impression we convey, are more important than anything else. It's an unfair system, and it points to the difficulty in going against the cultural grain.
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