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Lookism: beauty still trumps brains in too many workplaces

How to get ahead. Ines Bazdar Christopher Warhurst, University of Warwick and Dennis Nickson, University of Strathclyde Universities position themselves as places where brains matter. It seems strange then that students at a US university would rate attractive academics to be better teachers. This was the finding of a recent paper from the University of Memphis, which concluded that female …