Posted on 12/11/2017 11:29:36 AM PST by sparklite2
Radio personality Shavonne Patrice Owens, 37, says she experienced weight discrimination firsthand when she applied for a daycare job in Huntsville, Alabama, two years ago. Despite having all the qualifications for the job, Owens says her friend — a former employee of the daycare center in question (whose employment later terminated) — told her the reason she was ultimately passed over for the job was because of her weight.
Owens, who was 525 pounds at 5’11” at the time of her interview with the daycare center, said that this incident “hurt for a second, just for a second… but I know who I am and because of my weight, it has restricted me from a lot of things.” Looking back, she said she’s lost out on other career opportunities (such as jobs in retail that would have required prolonged periods of standing), and she suspects her size was working against her.
What’s more,“the standards for physical appearance are stricter for women than men. Women are more likely to be evaluated on their physical appearance,” says Dr. Kelly Brownell, the dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. This, he explains, makes it even harder for overweight or obese women to contend with recruiters’ prejudicial biases against them.
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Obeserious!
5’11”, 525? In a day care? Suppose she fell on one of the kids? And could she move fast enough to protect a little one from some imminent anger?
Right after college, I worked for a logistics company near the airport part time. MOST the girls were either hot and or below 25. Mostly blonds. Every day the other companies employees beside us were always asking me if there were openings. There were only 2 other not hot women but they kept to themselves.
They use a five hundred and twenty five pound woman as an example of weight discrimination in employment? Gimme a break.
What if you’re a 525 lb woman and you wannabe a Navy Seal?
But’choo can’t not hire a woman!
I am the oddball exception who gains weight on severe diets. Doctors are still trying to figure me out.
Has she considered sumo wrestling, since we are told by the usual suspects that women can do everything a man can do?
Nothing is the article about costs related to hiring morbidly obese people. Insurance costs, days missed, new chairs....
Wow. I’m 5’11” and 180. I couldn’t imagine weighing 525.
I know people who have weight problems who do not overeat and who exercise like fiends. Calling them nasty names is just cruel.
Her BMI is/was 73.2. Obese starts at 30.
525 lbs is far more than just “overweight”. If employers were not hiring merely overweight people almost nobody would have a job in this country.
“...Owens, who was 525 pounds at 5’11” at the time of her interview....”
Well, they do have to fit through the front door....
That guy in the middle looks like Jeb Bush.
Might be too big for a seal. Do they have a Navy Walrus program?
I have always been skinny,and HAD children——would I be a good manager?
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At five and a quarter I’ll bet she would have trouble just getting through the doorways.
I’d be afraid she’d eat the kids.
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