There is a curvy 30-something woman around my area that I’ve admired from afar. Once I wound up in a convenience store with her and every guy in there was distracted and going ga-ga over her. I gotta say it’s probably tough to conduct day-to-day business in an environment like that.
Maybe there aren’t that many women who are that curvaceous? After all, the subject line did say “unusually” curvaceous.
Wouldn’t it be just as hard to conduct business with an attractive, but not necessarily unusually curvaceous, woman around, though?
I think it’s rare to see a woman with a pretty face, nice ass, nice rack, and trim stomach. Usually one of those factors is missing. There’s something about an attractive and stacked (but not fat) woman that affects me more than a woman who’s average build and has a very pretty face. Pretty women with average bodies are fairly common.
Umm… no the curvy woman is more difficult because you don’t want to seem to be ogling her, even surreptitiously, so you avoid anything but her face lest she catch your eyes wandering. “Attractive” women have much less of an erotic stigma in interaction and so are easier to talk to comfortably.
If it’s a typo it’s damned clever. If it’s an intentional pun, it’s damned clever.
This makes me wonder how often you see people from upper to mid levels of business in general. There are a lot of people in college or at social functions. But I can’t imagine it’s common to walk into a room populated by mid-high management types. If you are only looking at a handful of companies’ managers, that’s not a good sample size upon which to base any conclusions.
Also, how are you identifying women as being or not being in management? Do you actually know their titles, or are you basing it on some other clue, such as their appearance?
I’m in commercial - industrial real estate, and typically interface mainly with executives and middle to upper middle management types. I know who the executives and managers are via their titles.
I’m not taking about “rooms” full of female executives and managers. Just my meetings over time with them.
Yeah, but a lot of attractive women have really great bodies, that aren’t necessarily as curvaceous.
I’m sure I’ll be pitted for this, but you want to know the real reasons why you don’t see curvacious women in upper management?
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Fewer women then men go into the business world to start with.
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Career women tend to congregate in certain industries - law, real estate, fashion, publishing, etc. I tend to see a lot more women coming out of the Conde Naste building than the Lehman Brothers building.
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Women tend to not rise as quickly as men for various reasons (including biases and descrimination)
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Many women get married, have some kids and drop out of the corporate world altogether.
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Many of the women who do stay in the corporate world get old, fat and ugly due to stress, long hours, bad eating habits and just plain ole’ gettin old. A lot of men do to FWIW.
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Many of the women who stay in the corporate world who don’t get fat get that kind of gaunt, skinny non-curvacious look (think Ann Coulter or actress Kim Raver from Lipstick Jungle/24)
So part of it is descrimination and part of it is self selection. In contrast, nearly all men have to work and keep working until we die.
Now I work in NYC so I think I see more curvacious women in management positions than you would elswhere. Not so much at my current job where everyone is butt fugly. But in my last job in one of the Times Square office towers there were plenty of attractive women at all levels. Not so much my company though. There were a lot of attractive girls in their 20s at mostly the staff consultant levels up through lower management. Senior management and executives tended to be mostly all male.
I should point out that my GF is a curvacious woman in a management level position at a finance company.
Cite.
Cite, I say. Cite.