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Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful

At work, as in life, attractive women get a lot of the breaks (01). Studies have shown that they are more likely to be promoted than their plain-Jane colleagues. Because people tend to project positive traits onto them, such as sensitivity and poise, they may also be at an advantage in job interviews. But research by two Israelis suggests otherwise. These researchers looked at what happens when job hunters include photos with their curricula vitae (CV), as is the norm in much of Europe and Asia. They sent fictional applications to over 2,500 real-life vacancies. For each job they sent two very similar résumés, one with a photo, one without. For men, the results were as expected. Hunks were more likely to be called for an interview if they included a photo. Ugly men were better off not including one.

However, for women this was reversed. Attractive females were less likely to be offered an interview if they included their photo. At first they considered that people assume beautiful women to be stupid. However, the photos had also been rated on how intelligent people thought each subject looked; there was no correlation between perceived intellect and physical beauty. So the cause of the discrimination must lie elsewhere. Human Resource (HR) departments tend to be staffed mostly by women. Indeed, 93% of those tasked with selecting whom to invite for an interview were female. The researchers unavoidable (02) - and unpalatable (03) - conclusion is that old-fashioned jealousy led the women to discriminate against pretty candidates.

(Source: The Economist- Mar 31${}^{st}$ 2012, adapted)

The words “unavoidable” (02) and “unpalatable” (03) are formed by adding the prefix “un-” to “avoidable” and to “palatable”, in order to give them the opposite meaning. The alternative where this did not occur is