Mustaches Are More Common Than Women Amongst Leadership Roles
Past research has found that women like to remove their facial and body hair. A 2010 Wayne State University survey found that about 85% of women remove their upper lip hair and 96% of women remove their body hair. However, new research suggests that growing a mustache may help them move up in their career.
According to a new study published in the British Medical Journal, female leaders at medical schools are fewer and far between than mustaches. Of the 50 medical schools examined in the study, 13% of leaders were women, while 19% were mustached humans.
Researchers defined mustaches as "the visible presence of hair on the upper cutaneous lip," which means that a mustache could exist with or without other facial hair, such as a beard. Most importantly, mustache identification was ge...