Women who tend to their looks
Women who tend to their looks
- May 20, 2016
- Research by Andrew Penner, sociologist, and Jaclyn Wong, sociology alumnus, featured by WZZM, May 20, 2016
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There is a new study that finds when women, in any profession, spend more time on their appearance, it actually causes people to take them more seriously. … Sociologists at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Irvine found that attractiveness is a key factor in how well young professionals – that is, between the ages of 24 and 32 – do at work. They actually found that attractiveness helps both men and women at work, but not in the same ways. For the guys …
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