STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

There are many volumes of studies dedicated to studying the impact of beauty (or lack thereof) on various aspects of life, including social interaction, romance, addiction, and employment. All of these studies ended with the same conclusion: a person’s appearance has definite positive and negative impacts on the areas of life in which the study took place. There is, therefore, no reason to offer another study trying to determine what the effects of beauty are. However, an investigation into the perception and attitudes surrounding appearance discrimination by employees can shed further light on this topic. The U.S. government has passed many laws regarding unfair hiring and compensation practices for groups of people based on age, sex, gender, disability, religion, race, color, and national origin, as these are known factors in discrimination. However, the problem with lookism is that it is largely unconscious by both the discriminator and the victims .