3 Women 3 Ways

  PRETTY IS AS PRETTY GETS: DO ATTRACTIVE WOMEN GET BETTER GRADES? I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl. Evangeline Lilly Lilly doesn’t mention her grades, but if her experience is typical of that found in a recent study, she probably got higher marks than her less attractive female friends. Yep – pretty girls get better grades, according to an economics professor’s study of more than 5,000 college women. And it didn’t make a difference whether the grader was male or female. So what does this mean? Not only does this have implications from an academic point of view, but also from a social point of view.  Does it diminish the all A’s the class knock out got? Does it make a difference to the less attractive woman who is working hard for those A’s?  Or does it really change anything now that we know it happens? Rey Hernandez-Julian is an associate professor of economics at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, and he likes to us