I disagree and mostly because you address a different issue.
You claim money helps looks and we 100% agree there... more money will make you more beautiful and the reason why is just as you stated.....
But this is not the topic...
Let us take a female doc making $200k a year and a female owner of multiple rental appartment making a net of $200k a year.
Hmm... chances are the female appartment rental owner is a lot pretties because she is not as killer stressed as a doc. She definitely doesnt do call on weekends at 12 midnight and definitely didn't go through residency and med school hell that destroys looks and money pockets.
I will further argue your own point by saying... docs go through med school and residency, which are a period of time where they are crunched by money issues... and as we stated.. lack of money destroys beauty and it will be hard to catch up on what other women have upkept for a while. Taking off the wrinkles/weights/stretch marks is not that easy without "work".
No need to be offended... don't worry.. I still think smart surgeons can look beautiful.... just like they do on scrubs.. hehehehe.
Not offended, just disagree.
The apartment owner may not take call, but then again, neither do I, nor do many female physicians in low-call specialties.
I don't necessarily buy it that being an "apartment owner" is less stressful - real estate is a pretty stressful field, after all.
However, for the sake of argument, it could be any field for comparison. I don't think the issue of upkeep for most female residents/physicains has to do with money, but rather either:
a) a general lack of interest in the area, which will not change - this is true for many females in every area of business. Just as there are homemakers with no interest in wearing make-up or doing something to enhance their beauty, there are physicians who feel the same
b) the money paid during residency is not so little that one cannot purchase some sunblock, a little lipgloss and mascara. I would counter that a lack of attention to physical enhancement during residency is more a function of time and concern over one's appearance (or lack thereof) rather than cost of make-up and clothes.
c) since residency is generally over during the early to mid 30s (or later for some of us), this isn't "too late" to re move wrinkles - either via surgery or some other restorative procdure, lose weight, etc.
Now I will accept that compared to the general public, BOTH male and female, tend to be average looking. There are obvious exceptions - we've all seen drop dead gorgeous male and female med stuidents and physicians. In our society, the beautiful female has less impetus and encouragement to pursue higher education, but to say this means that only the unattractive study medicine or that the study in and of itself makes one unattractive, is a bit of a reach, IMHO. And while you may see more of the drop dead gorgeous types in the 'real world", you are unlikely to find a physician, male or female, who is as unattractive as some patients - ie, teeth missing, dirty clothes, etc.
At any rate, I'm not sure where I am going with this but save it to say that it appears to me that male and female physicians are just as attractive as the general population and that training is no harder on females than it is males. Do you think male residents escape the weight gain, wrinkles, chronic fatigue which you associate with residency training?
