When the economy goes sour, women stock up on products that can
enhance their looks, a new study shows.
The reason is that women, consciously or not, are seeking to make
themselves more attractive to the dwindling supply of men with
good jobs, researchers say.
[...]
...Hill and her colleagues examined 20 years of data...
That's not long enough to go back before women moved into the
workforce in great numbers. So the attribution of motive is
gratuitous. Working women may want to make themselves more attractive
to present or potential employers in a period of scarce jobs and
frequent lay-offs. Depends on the internal frame of reference of the
woman.
So drawing the conclusions they did requires a study that controls for
whether or not a subject woman was clearly not active in the workforce
or was clearly committed to career or to suport of self, child or
family.
Ray remarked:
> Oh Keith, you're such an academic. What do you do for fun?:>))
Oy. I suppose that goes for me, too, then? Well, just now fun is
nurturing our largish (over-ambitious?) vegetable garden or tinkering
with the new and improved forge I'm building in the shop.
- Mike
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Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
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