Tuesday, July 19, 2016

UK study correlating short height and obesity with lower pay

This comes for Exeter college.  Basically verifying that there is a bias towards short males and overweight females  in the workplace.

Of course, now some employment judges in the UK want to ban fattism in the workplace but no such remedy for short men.

Yet, who has more control over their situation?  No matter how much I work out or exercise, I will not gain an inch in height but it seems that society thinks my height is something I should change or is a character flaw.  However, many overweight people (not all) do have much more of a choice than do those of us who are shorter in stature, so why don't we get the same amount of legal protection that is being considered for the overweight in the workplace in the UK?

Here is a video suggesting that short men and overweight women experience the same issues in the workplace and lower pay.