Beauty is one of those things that stirs emotions about as deep as anything. People want, and in fact, on some levels, people NEED to be as beautiful as they possibly can be.
Need beauty?
Yes. People need beauty.
Studies have shown that infants and children who are seen as unattractive are beaten and abused by their mothers far more often than their attractive counterparts.
We could stop there, but even if the average or below average in appearance survive childhood, their chances, particularly women's chances of ending up with a financially successful and attractive hubby by mid-life are greatly reduced. And what about after hubby bites the dust?
The less attractive women end up with very little money in inheritance and accumulate almost no net worth whether on their own from their own career, or received from their hubby in the will.
Oh, and what if the woman decides to go into the concrete jungle? Attractiveness is crucial to their salary and advancement.
Evil men?
Hardly.
Unattractive women are advanced less often and with less salary increase than their attractive counterparts to a much greater degree by their women superiors than male.
In other words. Women are hiring, advancing, and paying more to attractive women than unattractive women in a way that supersedes what men have done in the past.
Attraction and Net Worth
How much better do attractive women do than unattractive women in net worth? Last time I looked it was staggering. (Something like 100 times more money accumulated in the family, usually most by the husband, but not always. I'll share the data later; we have enough for this article today!)
It's definitely not....a pretty picture...for those who aren't pretty.
And there is more.
Even Computers Know Beauty
Recently a mathematician came out with a program where a computer can calculate whether a woman is beautiful or not. And it does it with surprising accuracy. The reason it works so well is because there are specific aspects and attributes that are "visible" to a machine that are quickly measurable.
Scary that a photograph of a woman can help you predict her likelihood of success on the job, financial accumulation and whether she was beaten by her Mom or not.