beauty public relations

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

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.

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.

Beauty is Big Business on NBC Today Show - Madeline Johnson