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Overweight Women Tend To Earn Smaller Paychecks, Study Claims
NBC News ^
| October 22, 2014
| Bill Briggs
Posted on 01/27/2015 6:22:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Heavier women are more likely to be lighter in the wallet, reports a new study that says obese females tend to occupy lower-paying, more-strenuous jobs in less-visible corners of the U.S. workforce when compared to average-sized women and men.
In fact, the link between extra pounds and leaner paychecks is distinct: When a woman becomes overweight, she already is less likely to land a public-facing role in better-paying white-collar jobs, according to research released Tuesday by Vanderbilt University.
And women who are considered obese or morbidly obese based on their body mass indexes are more likely to forced into some of the cheapest-paying, most labor-intensive roles in industries such as home health, food prep and child care, said Jennifer Shinall, the study's author and an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School....
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: economy; obesity; women
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:40:51 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They just look smaller in comparison.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:41:43 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: dfwgator
She was the one I thought of too. Right up front when it came time for the B-day cake
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:43:30 PM PST
by
digger48
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can I be brutally blunt for just one minute. I am putting up the ‘just saying’ shield so no one can flame me. Let’s face it, attractive women ARE more valuable at the workplace. Did you ever see an attractive woman salesperson. She can open doors with just a smile. People pay attention to attractive women, go out of their way to please them. Attractive women at the complaint desk get less grief. They bring in more customers. Okay, I think I have said enough.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:44:11 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:45:50 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Born to Conserve
My boss a few years back was morbid obese, mean, and just ugly inside and out. I’ll throw in control freak too.
I heard that she tried gastric bypass and failed. She made good money.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:47:40 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: fhayek
I suggest not knocking something until you've tried it.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:52:43 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: PROCON
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:57:11 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: Born to Conserve
She was nice, but she couldnt climb stairs, she couldnt go on errands, she couldnt come in early or leave late, she couldnt carry anything, she couldnt stand for more than a few minutes, etc, etc, etc.We have a man like that in our office and the rest of us have to do more to make up for it.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:57:56 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Just say to NO Rhinos in 2016.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
That’s sad because, I mean, how they afford to stuff their maw?
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:58:06 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: fhayek
Moreover, Conservative women are attractive and weigh ion proper proportion to other facts such as age and height. It's a verifiable fact that liberal women are ugly and most are disgustingly fat. Sodomy in the form of lesbianism is a trait common to leftists and they are, with little exception, hideous.
As but one example among millions, consider the vile moochelle hussein vs. the lovely Governor Sarah Palin.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:58:40 PM PST
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The checks are actually the same size, they just look smaller next to the big women.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:00:02 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
To: PROCON
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:02:48 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ohhh, I would totally knock that...
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:04:34 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: fhayek
What are you talking about? Seinfeld did a whole episode on this very point.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:05:18 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nobody likes fat. Train for the mile in track. I workout a lot. Get off your obese ass and exert. Stop stuffing your face or die. Your choice.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:17:42 PM PST
by
iowacornman
(Romney is the father of government health care.)
To: Vendome
The classic its .. all medias fault.. does not hold much water when in the pre mass media days the concept of beauty was not all that different.
also see.. golden ratio.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:18:11 PM PST
by
Bidimus1
To: Bidimus1
not to be too blunt. but Jim Fixx is quite dead as well.
But being heavy is no fun, and the results long term are as a rule quite negative.
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posted on
01/27/2015 7:19:48 PM PST
by
Bidimus1
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