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June 23, 2011 - 10:06AM
Overweight women, are less successful than their slimmer peers, according to recent university research that blames a lack of education, rather than workplace discrimination, as the major reason.
"Bigger girls are less likely to go to college regardless of how well they did in school, their career aspirations or whether their parents went to college," said Christy Glass, one of two Utah State University associate professors of sociology involved in the study. "That education deficit accumulates over the course of their careers."
Weight was not nearly as big a factor in the career trajectories of men, the researchers found.
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"We need some serious intervention there," Glass said.
The study was published in the 2010 June issue of journal Social Forces, but has since garnered wider attention following an opinion piece in The New York Times by the scholars, titled Heavy in School, Burdened for Life.
"There is so much insensitivity surrounding anybody afflicted with obesity. So much of the prevailing feeling is that we deserve everything bad that happens to us because it's all our fault," said Barbara Thompson, chairwoman of the Obesity Action Coalition, a 25,000-member group based in Tampa, Florida.
Overweight women, are less successful than their slimmer peers, according to recent university research that blames a lack of education, rather than workplace discrimination, as the major reason.
"Bigger girls are less likely to go to college regardless of how well they did in school, their career aspirations or whether their parents went to college," said Christy Glass, one of two Utah State University associate professors of sociology involved in the study. "That education deficit accumulates over the course of their careers."
Weight was not nearly as big a factor in the career trajectories of men, the researchers found.
Advertisement: Story continues below
"We need some serious intervention there," Glass said.
The study was published in the 2010 June issue of journal Social Forces, but has since garnered wider attention following an opinion piece in The New York Times by the scholars, titled Heavy in School, Burdened for Life.
"There is so much insensitivity surrounding anybody afflicted with obesity. So much of the prevailing feeling is that we deserve everything bad that happens to us because it's all our fault," said Barbara Thompson, chairwoman of the Obesity Action Coalition, a 25,000-member group based in Tampa, Florida.
The researchers concluded that obesity, at least for young women, somehow derails aspirations.
Obesity may be less of a factor in mens' economic prospects because it does not carry as much stigma and is not much of a barrier to playing sports or pursuing other extracurricular activities at school.
"Being heavy can be an advantage (for men), if you are playing nose tackle on the football team," Reither said.
The Sydney Morning Herald
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"Being heavy can be an advantage (for men), if you are playing nose tackle on the football team," Reither said.
The Sydney Morning Herald
https://www.jamiiforums.com/imgres?...weight+black+women&hl=en&sa=X&tbm=isch&itbs=1
