Your weight can affect your job prospects — but only if you're a woman

It is an extremely sad fact that people who are overweight or obese face hiring discrimination, but it seems weight bias is even more pervasive than we thought, and more discriminatory toward women. In a new study, people said they’d be less likely to hire women at the high end of the healthy weight range in a customer-facing job than they would an overweight man. For the study in PLOS ONE, researchers had 120 people (half men, half women) look at photos of 40 strangers’ faces two different times. They were instructed that the candidates were equally qualified and asked to rate how likely they would be to hire them for positions where they’d interact with customers (as in the retail and hospitality industries) and jobs where they would not.

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