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How Fat Shaming Ends Up Hurting Women’s Paychecks

CREDIT: Shutterstock The focus on the nation’s obesity epidemic, coupled with society’s specific gender-based expectations for women to look a certain way, ultimately results in fewer professional opportunities for women who are overweight, according to a new Vanderbilt University study. Compared to average-sized women and men, overweight American women are more likely to occupy lower-paying jobs in less respected sectors of the U.S.

 

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