"Attractive men are more likely to get hired than attractive women."
An Israeli study sent out 2,656 resumes in pairs -- 5,312 in all -- to advertised job openings. In Israel, resumes are often delivered with attached photos, and the pairs of resumes contained one with no picture and one with a picture of an attractive or plain-looking man or woman. Attractive men were substantially more likely to receive a response than plain-looking men, and twice as likely to get one as resumes with no photo. The trend was reversed in women: attractive women were the least likely to get a response, beneath plain-looking women and no-photo resumes.