Men tend to work in less public facing/social career fields. Your appearance doesn’t matter much if you’re a linesman or a welder; it matters more if you’re doing sales or supporting clients. Probably not the entire story, I think people do have different expectations for men and women, but certainly part of it.

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kbelder a day ago | parent | next [-]

Just go to a fast food place. There's a strong tendency to have guys in the back cooking, girls in the front at the register.

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monknomo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

you know a pretty fair majority of men are working in white collar office work, which is directly comparable in terms of public facing and social careers?

real loosely, something like 1/3, 40% are in these blue collar fields, and even in those fields there are enough sales and similar roles that prefer better appearances.

	▲	derektank a day ago \| parent [-]
		I would say different white collar jobs have different expectations for personal appearance. For example, even looking solely at the men at my company, our sales reps, marketing lead, and CEO are all more conventionally attractive than our hardware engineers, finance manager, and CTO. And I would say women tend to be at least slightly more likely to wind up in the former positions than the latter (of course we’re speaking in generalities here)