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purple hayes
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 Posted: 03/04/04 - 11:45 Post subject: Obese Women Earn 30 Percent Less
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2004/mar/03/030307855.html
| Quote: | WASHINGTON (AP) - Being fat may hurt your income - if you're a highly educated woman. So says research from Finland that suggests weight is a pay barrier for certain women, but not for men.
Obese women who are highly educated earn about 30 percent less - a difference of at least $5,000 a year - than normal-weight or even plump women, the study found. When analyzed by occupation, women with white-collar jobs earned less if they were obese.
Obesity had little or no effect on pay if women were poorly educated, manual workers or self-employed - and no statistically significant effect on men's pay, the study found.
"This suggests that, socio-economically, obesity is not as stigmatizing for men as it is for women," concluded the University of Helsinki researchers.
They couldn't explain why, or why there was a bigger effect on some women, except to say the pressure on women to be thin may be strongest among higher socio-economic classes.
The researchers combed national registries that track Finns' education, occupation and income to choose 2,314 men and 2,068 women for the study. Participants had to be employed in 1993, with no leaves for illness, thus attempting to rule out obesity-caused disease as a reason for lower income.
One limitation: Participants reported their own weight.
The study was published Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health. |
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 11:47 Post subject:
I heard that on Imus this morning.
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 11:47 Post subject:
Sad but not surprising.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 11:52 Post subject:
this brings up...my how much do looks matter thread.
I think they may matter more than people like to admit.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 11:54 Post subject:
Is this obesity 30% in addition to the discrepancy in pay between genders?
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 11:56 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | Is this obesity 30% in addition to the discrepancy in pay between genders? |
That's what it looks like by reading the exerpt.
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 12:01 Post subject:
Our discrepancy in pay b/w genders, you mean? I'm not sure they have that in Finland. Does the article say?
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 12:21 Post subject:
Talk about muck raking. This study was done in Finland on finnish subjects. While it may be true in the US it hasn't been studied.
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Pug
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 12:28 Post subject:
I wouldn't be surprised.
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elkid
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 12:46 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | Talk about muck raking. |
That's ... that's MUCKISM! You muckist you! 
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ShannonG
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 12:54 Post subject:
The whole study is skewed. What woman tells the truth about her weight? 
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 12:57 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: | | The whole study is skewed. What woman tells the truth about her weight? |
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airehead
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 13:00 Post subject:
I also read a similar study done that short people earn less than their taller counterparts.
So, if you are a woman, who is short and obese--the message is pretty negative....
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 13:01 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | Running Brewer wrote: | | Talk about muck raking. |
That's ... that's MUCKISM! You muckist you! |
I'm entitled to think what ever I want about Muck!
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omega lambda
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Posted: 03/04/04 - 13:03 Post subject:
There's not enough information here. Obese women are making 30% less, but how was that calculated? What factors were accounted for? Did they report the numbers the same way the US reports that women aren't paid the same as men?
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