What, if you were looking for a job and another candidate caught the job because she was thinner than you?
Or what if your thin employees was paid more than you? This is a disturbing thought.
Studies in the past have shown evidence of weight of discrimination in the workplace for women, but these studies were in the United States where gender discrimination is done more frequently. Fortunately, a new study by the University Iceland shows a strong correlation between being overweight and a lower employment rate published was recently, especially for women.
Iceland is the perfect place to perform to this type of study, as a low rate of gender inequality. For example, Iceland the first woman President elected. So the results are disappointing, that there is still prejudice against overweight women on the labour market.
The study was also men in the workforce and their weight. It was a positive relationship for obese men-they held more jobs and more have been paid. And no difference we are talking about a small piece of change. Various studies have thousands of dollars difference in content shown, even if you 25 kilos overweight (University of Florida, US study).
So, are we what of this weight and gender bias to do?
It seems that in these countries with little or no inequality of the sexes, it still fat discrimination. Maybe it's a subconscious discrimination by employers, however, that still does not justify it.
Must countries have weight laws against discrimination?
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