The Daily Stat: Overweight Women, but not Men, Face Employment Discrimination in China

 

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April 14, 2014 Overweight Women, but not Men, Face Employment Discrimination in China In China, urban workplaces discriminate against people whose weight falls outside the expected norm—with the exception of overweight men, says a team led by Jay Pan of Sichuan University in China. For women, being overweight decreases the probability of being employed by 15.2%, on average, but there is no such penalty for overweight men. Being underweight is a different story: It decreases the probability of being employed by 22.9% for women and 34.3% for men. Obesity also hurts people's employment prospects, and for women the penalty is three times greater than for men. SOURCE: The impact of body size on urban employment: Evidence from China

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