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From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Makeup and success
Message-ID: <2381@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 19:14:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 11 19:14:24 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 11:26:42 EDT
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Organization: Dartmouth College
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>>  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. 

The following article is reprinted from a local tabloid.  I disclaim
responsibility for its accuracy.

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Women with sexiest names are the least likely to get picked for top
jobs, according to a fascinating recent study.

A survey conducted by Deborah Linville at the Renssalaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, N.Y., discovered that men are prejudiced against
promoting women with sexy-sounding names to managerial jobs.

If her finding holds true in the work place, Mildreds, Ethels, and
Marthas have it over Cheryls, Dawns and Debbies as future bosses in the
corporate world.

In her study, Linville asked students to rate 250 female names in order
of their perceived sexiness.

Linville then instructed another group of male students to play the
boss and pick whom they would hire for top positions from a list of the
seven most sexy -- and the seven least sexy -- names.

By a margin of three to one, the sexy Suzannes lost out to their more
prim-sounding counterparts.

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	Andy Behrens
	andyb@dartmouth.csnet
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