A recent study on worker attractiveness finds that there is a large 'beauty pay premium' for jobs that require significant interpersonal interaction, although not for jobs that primarily require working with data.
Welcome to the beauty pay gap. A gap, another one, that shows that the reasons, biases and heuristics that we use to value others at work are endless and that, possibly, Eliminating them would mean significantly reducing freedom..
Jungle of biases
This shows, once again, that employers discriminate. Another thing is that we consider that this discrimination is positive, negative, inevitable or avoidable, which already enters the political, almost philosophical, and also deontological field..
What seems evident is that discrimination is the only way to choose: faced with two identical resumes, one must choose something that inclines one towards one or another employee…which can even lead to in discriminating based on skin color: For example, if you open a restaurant with African cuisine, having black waiters may be preferable for the employer if they consider that it will increase their profits.
The time has passed when phrenologists and physiognomists inferred the characteristics of human beings from the protuberances of the skull or facial features. However, andThis has not eliminated our innate tendency to judge others by the type of face they have.. That's why villains usually look evil. That is why in the courts of law, lThose who have facial defects tend to be convicted more easily by popular juries.
Although an individual's personality is full of nuances and we will rarely be able to decipher it in a few personal interactions, we tend to consider the face as aa kind of Rosetta stone that will decode the entire inner universe of an unknown person.
All in all, this is a complex, protracted topic, full of sharp edges like the thorns of a rose like the one that guarded the Beast, so you can dive into its deep multifactorial consequences in the following video:
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The wage gap that no one talks about: the beauty gap
was originally published in
Xataka Science
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Sergio Parra
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