The impact of male and female facial attractiveness on occupational prestige: Facial attractiveness does matter, both for men and its impact is constant over the employment history (Sala et al. 2013)

Njere · 2019-12-05T21:18:02+00:00

Reminder that the ability-looks correlation is almost zero. Studies who claimed otherwise were likely confounded by halo effect as this study claims: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415372/

empatheticapathetic · 2019-12-05T22:10:39+00:00

Halo effect is real

Icynibba2 · 2019-12-06T16:27:29+00:00

It could be argued that men in higher places marry more attractive women, thus producing more attractive children with high privileges and more advantages over others.

And it is, for this exact reason, is why most male CEOs are tall. They simply marry tall model-tier women.

Carkudo · 2019-12-06T10:45:37+00:00

Got a pdf?

chamaelleon · 2020-01-03T22:25:12+00:00

I witness this in the restaurant industry to extreme degrees, and it angers me to see people being financially oppressed because of the face they were born with.

I've worked every job in a restaurant for over fifteen years. When I applied for the cooking job I have now, I was asked somewhat cheekily but also seriously, why I wouldn't want to work out front, since I look decent enough and have all my teeth, because I could make way more money. My reason is that I'm autistic spectral and I get sensory overload around as many people as sometimes fill a restaurant, but I was a server in my twenties and I know there's a huge difference between the amount of work you put in to the amount of pay you get out, compared to being a cook, and that it simply amounts to pay-for-being-pretty.

That pay bump not only exists in a great many professions, but it also open the door to most of them in the first place. So you not only make less at the job you have for being ugly, but you don't even get the option of many jobs simply for being ugly (or what is generally perceived as ugly at the time, because look at how wildly that has changed over times and distances across the world).

As ludicrous as it might seem, it really makes me think we might eventually need to treat people with looks that don't generally appeal to others, as if they had a disability.