To the list of insecurities that already plague job applicants (not going to a top law school, failure to make the Law Review, or the inability to get excited by golf), you can now add physical beauty – or the lack thereof. Contrary to what your mother might have told you, looks count.
In a recent editorial in The National Law Journal, Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode, author of The Beauty Bias, makes the case that there’s a prejudice against those not blessed with good looks, and that it is a form of discrimination as insidious as racism or sexism:
