Attractiveness wage premium is male‑tilted

Empirical claim: physical attractiveness correlates with higher wages for both sexes but exhibits a larger, more robust premium for men. If validated across representative datasets, this implies gendered returns to embodied status that interact with hiring practices, promotion, and workplace bias. — This reframes debates about workplace inequality and merit by showing that embodied traits (looks) — not only education or experience — systematically influence earnings, with gendered effects that matter for anti‑discrimination policy and corporate practice.