mark@gatech.UUCP (09/06/84)
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.
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uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!marksunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) (09/08/84)
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. -- {ucbvax|decvax|ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)
andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens) (09/12/84)
>> 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. * * * * * 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. * * * * * Andy Behrens andyb@dartmouth.csnet {astrovax,dalcs,decvax,cornell,linus}!dartvax!andyb