The Latest Face of Discrimination: Beauty Bias?

During the past 75 years or so in this country, the government has rightly expanded equal rights protection to cover a growing number of groups based on gender, race, religion, age and disability.

While there's been positive results on those fronts, more needs to be done regarding the various types of bias that somehow manage to linger.

However, despite those strides forward to ensure “equality for all” there is an emerging subset of the population that is facing a bias toward…well…their faces.

Unattractive, homely, uncomely – call it what you will but the ugly among us are being discriminated against. Here's the link below to a recent article in the Washington Post by guest columnist Deborah L. Rhode exploring this ugly phenomenon of “Beauty Bias”: