I’ve heard being an attractive, fertile female has benefits and drawbacks. Women hate you, men just want to fuck you, nobody takes you seriously, etc.
FTR, I’m sorry if people think I’m saying women are required to use their sexuality or appearance in their career. My point is what careers is that going to be an advantage? Pharma sales rep? Yes. Lab technician? No. Bottle girl? Yes. Lawyer? Probably not. Waitress/bartender? Possibly. Factory worker? No.
For people getting insulted, thats too bad. But that is how the world works. The (vast) majority of CEOs are tall white males. Is that because tall white males are more competent? No. But we are biased primates who make judgments based on appearance.
About female pop singers.
Remember “The Mama’s and the Papa’s”? One of their female singers (Cass Elliot)was a heavyset woman and the band was told to drop her because of the image.
You should contemplate the distinction between “what careers can an attractive young woman make a good living at” and “what are some careers which are especially well-suited to attractive young women?” If you were to ask “what careers can a tall man make a good living at,” you’d probably get people saying, “whatever he’s good at.” And if you’d asked what careers are well-suited to tall men you might hear, “basketball player.” The idea that just because a woman is attractive, she should automatically go into a line of work that leverages that attractiveness is what people think sounds like 1950’s thinking. Sometimes, pretty ladies do things they don’t even need to be pretty for. (whoa!)
There’s a kind of hire that in Spain is called bollicaos, after an industrial pastry which looks good but tastes like cardboard and feels like a brick in your stomach.
Bollicaos are hired straight out of college on the basis of a decent to good GPA but not necessarily the ability to understand what they studied or what they do (a large amount come from colleges which favor regurgitation over comprehension); they must have very good to extremely good looks and be willing to spend half their salary in keeping those looks (seriously, they can be getting paid less than minimal wage but alas, must keep up with the latest fashion catalogs).
The same companies will hire the ones with super good looks to be consultants and the ones who don’t look so good (male under 5’10"; woman with wide hips; the slightest amount of acne; glasses that aren’t the absolutely latest fashion) as programmers. One of the worst things that can be said about a consultant above age 30 is “you know how some people get hired as bollicaos? Some never get beyond…” - meaning they still haven’t learned how to do that job they’ve been doing for enough years to be considered “senior”. Aged bollicaos can usually be found in small consulting firms, but will never be partners, team leads or anything like that; they get assigned to those projects where their area of supposed expertise is expected to be small and simple. Being a bollicao of any gender opens the biggest doors in the business but doesn’t keep them open.
My mother told me that her former boss (female); who ran an education services firm always hired attractive females for the front desk, because the “mom would be concentrating on the brochure and dad on the lady”.
I can’t help thinking that a really …* evolved* primate would be embarrassed to imply that he was unable to rise above his animal impulses.
as a data point, a young person I know who was otherwise well qualified could not get in to a graduate program for hospital administrators. He couldn’t figure out why until he visited the program in session and noticed that almost ALL the students were tall good-looking men. He is relatively short. He asked and as an aside was told that his application did very well right up to the in-person interview. He had all the right answers, but didn’t score well. He has since done very well in a less glamorous profession. So, it isn’t just young good-looking women. Many careers have formal (think athletics) or informal physical qualifications. These qualifications may not be PC, but all make sense in the real world.
Another feature of note-hair color. There is a professor at the U. of Virginia (I think, one of the schools in that part of the country) who studies non-profit fund-raising. According to his research a young blonde female out-performs virtually every other person in in-person fundraising. The difference is massive and hair color overwhelms other characterisitics and the purpose of the fund-raising. It isn’t PC, but it is the real world.
A lot more in recent years. Far more than Asian male reporters, at least in the USA.
Anyhow, back to the OP. High-end retail for those that are younger. High-end sales (real estate, luxury cars, jewelery, etc) for those that are older. Management personnel of large high-amenity apartment complexes in the Sunbelt also tend to be very attractive women.