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Women generally spend a lot time to get ready for a party or a work place. Most women prefer to be well-groomed before heading out of the house while men don't. Face make-over, hair dressing, choosing appropriate outfit and the list goes on and on. Does grooming really have a role to play in a woman's life and career growth?

A recent research says yes to the question that has remained unanswered for a long time. Well-groomed women tend to get paid more than their counterparts that don't prefer makeover. The research has it that being attractive has a role to play in their paycheck.

Jacyln Wong of the University of Chicago and Andrew Penner of the University of California at Irvine studied data of about 14,000 people from a long-running national study to find the link between women's income and their attractiveness. For the purpose of the study, the investigators collected lot information from women including their educational qualification, income, job, personality and few other attributes.

The researchers also rated the participants on how well they are groomed and how attractive they looked. It was observed in the study that attractive people earned more than their less attractive counterparts. The researchers noted that while grooming didn't matter for men, hair-dressing and face makeover accounted for the income difference in women.

"For women, most of the attractiveness advantage comes from being well groomed. For men, only about half of the effect of attractiveness is due to grooming," noted Wong, according to Chicago Tribune.

A number of studies in the past have also noted that attractive people have an edge over less attractive ones in schools and work places. Attractive people had 20 percent added advantage in getting hired for a job and some advantage in getting recognition and achieving higher grades in schools.

"In other words, the study suggests that grooming is important for both men and women in the workplace, but particularly for women. Changes in grooming have a substantial effect on whether women are perceived as attractive, and their salaries. In fact, less attractive but more well-groomed women earned significantly more, on average, than attractive or very attractive women who weren't considered well-groomed," reported Union Bulletin.