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From: mat@mtx5b.UUCP (Mark Terribile)
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Subject: Re: Money vs. Good looks
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 20:40:36 EDT
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>> This past weekend, (Saturday night, I believe) ABC aired a special entitled:
>>	LOOKS
>> ... more attractive people tend to get better jobs, promotions, and pay.
>>          .....
>Not necessarily true.   In a short T.V. news story I saw recently, it
>was related that while more 'handsome' men tend to get better jobs,
>promotions, etc.,  quite the opposite was true for women.  ...
>The reporter, quoting a recent study, stated that good looks in a woman were
>taken as a negative indicator of business skills.

During WWII, the British Secret Service, under the command of INTREPID (Wm.
Stephenson) had hundreds of people opening other peoples' mail.  The ``other
people'' were known or suspected spies, and it was important that the letters
be opened carefully and resealed perfectly.  For some reason, the fellow in
charge of this operation found that women with attractive ankles did well,
and women who did poorly almost always has less well-shaped ankles.  You
may speculate what you like about muscle tone in the limbs, but this is what
was reported.

On a more analytical note, is it possible that attractive women learn (or are
taught) to exploit their attractiveness, and that as you move higher and
higher up the management chain, where other people can't afford the time and
effort to keep supporting her, the women who does this becomes less a pleasure
and more a liability?
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