So much of high status jobs is looking the part, and demonstrating a certain masculine/eugenic "right" to a position above others. It has been repeatedly shown

So much of high status jobs is looking the part, and demonstrating a certain masculine/eugenic "right" to a position above others. It has been repeatedly shown taller people out-earn and rise to higher ranks than their shorter peers. Same goes for more attractive, men with higher testosterone levels (which correlate and whose effects form virtuous confounding cycles pairwise with athletic ability, socialization, physical attractiveness, etc). Business is all about impressions. People respond much more positively towards people on the high end of all the mentioned traits vs the low end. If a company wants to make a good impression, they'll send a 6'2" handsome athlete over a 5'8" underweight introvert. Life is the continuous compounded realization of opportunities afforded by the luck your preexisting circumstances allow you to have. One simply has to browse through the headshots of C-levels and VCs vs engineers and researchers. People tend to gravitate towards the fields that affirm where they "ought" to be by our biological and cultural biases. You'll notice that even among those in more stereotypically "nerdy" fields, those who make a bigger name for themselves and gain more social status tend to be physical exceptions to the negative stereotypes ascribed to their group.