We spend our precious wages on beauty treatments that help us look presentable for the office. But according to researchers, if a woman is applying for a ' masculine' job, she really needn't have bothered. Fashion style on bellasdress

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Although being pretty will help those applying for secretarial jobs, for other roles in which appearance is deemed unimportant, attractive women are actually less likely to be recruited.

In job categories like director of security, hardware salesperson, prison guard and tow truck driver, attractive women were overlooked. In each of these jobs appearance was perceived to be unimportant.

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Lead researcher Professor Stefanie Johnson, from University of Colorado Denver Business School, said: 'In these professions being attractive was highly detrimental to women. '

But the research, published in the Journal of Social Psychology, found beautiful people still enjoy a significant edge on the whole. They tend to get higher salaries, better performance evaluations, and higher levels of admission to college, better voter ratings when running for public office and more favorable judgments in trials.

But in one narrow aspect of life, beauty can be a hindrance, something researchers have called the 'beauty is beastly' effect. In every other kind of job, attractive women were preferred. This wasn’t the case with men which shows that there is still a double standard when it comes to gender.

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Handsome men are always at an advantage and never discriminated against. Professor Johnson said: 'One could argue that, under certain conditions, physical appearance may be a legitimate basis for hiring. In jobs involving face-to-face client contact, such as sales, more physically attractive applicants could conceivably perform better than those who are less attractive.

However, it is important that if physical attractiveness is weighed equally for men and women to avoid discrimination against women.'

source: http://judelleous.blogspot.com/2015/06/pretty-womens-dresses-on-job-market.html

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