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Can Being Thin Actually Translate into a Bigger Paycheck for Women?

• “For men, increases in weight have positive linear effects of pay but at diminished returns at above-average levels of weight.”

• Gaining weight is more damaging to women’s earnings than to men. “For women, increases in weight have negative linear effects on pay, but the negative effects are stronger at below-average than at above-average weight levels.”

• “Whereas women are punished for any weight gain, very thin women receive the most severe punishment for their first few pounds of weight gain. This finding is consistent with research showing that the media’s depiction of an unrealistically think female ideal leads people to see this ideal as normative, expected, and central to female attractiveness.”

• “Very thin” women earned approximately $22,000 more than their average weight counterparts.

• “Thin” women earned a little over $7,000 more than their average weight counterparts.

• “Heavy” and “Very Heavy” women lost over $9,000 and almost $19,000, respectively, than their average weight counterparts.

http://blogs.forbes.com/lisaquast/2011/06/06/can-being-thin-actually-translate-into-a-bigger-paycheck-for-women/

Note: I really don’t have any experience with thin vs. overweight in the workplace and how it correlated to pay, so I don’t feel free to make commentary or tell stories.

• 3 months ago

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