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NoCarrier · 03-04-2004, 06:35 AM

Study: Obese Women Earn 30 Percent Less

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...esity_income_2

Being fat may hurt your income ? if you're a highly educated woman. So says research from Finland that suggests weight is a pay barrier for certain women, but not for men.

Obese women who are highly educated earn about 30 percent less ? a difference of at least $5,000 a year ? than normal-weight or even plump women, the study found. When analyzed by occupation, women with white-collar jobs earned less if they were obese.

Obesity had little or no effect on pay if women were poorly educated, manual workers or self-employed ? and no statistically significant effect on men's pay, the study found.

"This suggests that, socio-economically, obesity is not as stigmatizing for men as it is for women," concluded the University of Helsinki researchers.

They couldn't explain why, or why there was a bigger effect on some women, except to say the pressure on women to be thin may be strongest among higher socio-economic classes.

The researchers combed national registries that track Finns' education, occupation and income to choose 2,314 men and 2,068 women for the study. Participants had to be employed in 1993, with no leaves for illness, thus attempting to rule out obesity-caused disease as a reason for lower income.

One limitation: Participants reported their own weight.

The study was published Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health.

=^..^= · 03-04-2004, 06:38 AM

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princess · 03-04-2004, 06:38 AM

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Originally posted by =^..^=
yeah, but their milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard

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Odin88 · 03-04-2004, 07:03 AM

I am in shape, and I have no fetish for fatties, but I think it sucks. 'Lookism' as such, is likely the biggest cause of discrimination there is. What's worse is even ugly fuckers discriminate based upon it.

korzon · 03-04-2004, 07:13 AM

They also get called "fat fucker" five times more often than your average slim person.

who gives a fuck.

zentz · 03-04-2004, 07:14 AM

anyone would hit them ?

NoCarrier · 03-04-2004, 07:16 AM

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Originally posted by korzon
They also get called "fat fucker" five times more often than your average slim person.

who gives a fuck.

Let me guess, you are personally called "The Fucking Retard" five times more often than your average normal person?

Winterverse · 03-04-2004, 07:35 AM

Most people assume if you're fat, you're lazy.. otherwise you would be active and thinner. I don't know, never been fat but I wouldn't hire one because I like the charisma in the office and so do my clients.

hova · 03-04-2004, 07:41 AM

Thank god McD's stopped supersizing

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