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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Makeup and success
Message-ID: <1673@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 23:30:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: sun.1673
Posted: Fri Sep  7 23:30:10 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 04:10:15 EDT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Greetings:

>Have any of you women netlanders noticed a correlation between
>makeup, hair color, style of dress, etc and business success? I have
>a friend who is a natural blond who has found it to her advantage
>to darken the color of her hair. She is in sales and swears that
>she makes more money as a brunette than as a blond.
>Mark Johnson

It's simply a matter of stereotypes.

Since EVERYONE knows that blondes are dumb, NOone takes blondes seriously.
Since EVERYONE knows that brunettes aren't, ALL   take brunettes seriously.
Since EVERYONE knows that red-heads are firey, everyone ... you get the idea.

It's far easier to change your body to get yourself reclassified from one
stereotypical group into another to elicit different reactions from people,
than it is to actually try to change the stereotypes.  And it's far easier to
change the stereotypes, than it is to live outside them (as an individual).

Ancedotally, ***** *******, president of ******** ***** *******, began
dying his hair grey in order to achieve the maturity and respectability that
EVERYone expects of a corporate President.

Dress for success?  The most "natural" :-) thing in the world.

Just try being an individual, and see how small your peer group shrinks.

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{ucbvax|decvax|ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)