Research shows that women's work compensation is inversely proportional to their weight.

　　A study published by Vanderbilt University (Vanderbilt University) found that excess fat and low wages are already linked when job hunting. When a woman is overweight, she is less likely to get a high-paying white-collar job.

　　Obese or morbidly obese women are more likely to be forced to work in labor-intensive industries: such as home care, kitchen work, or babysitting. Jennifer Shinall, assistant professor at the Vanderbilt University Law School and author of the study, summarized.

　　“Data shows that employers are reluctant to hire heavier-set women for reasons of pride.” she said: “But obese men do not receive the same treatment, a large portion of them work in sports-related jobs. This is why this data is surprising, why is it wrong for women to be fat but men are excused? This is a gender discrimination issue.”

　　She studied data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau, and compared it with data from the National Workplace Eating Habits Survey.

　　The results changed people\'s stereotypes about fat women, who were thought to sit in offices for more than 8 hours a day. In fact, they do more physical activity, walking and running, constantly busy. “Often, they do the work no one wants to do.” That is, low-paying, labor-intensive jobs. That is, the employment outcomes of fat women are not due to their own choices and desires.

　　“Physical labor jobs are the only jobs most obese women can get,” she said: “They don’t have many choices. Often they can only do the work no one wants to do.” She compared the wages of fat women and women of average weight. For example, in jobs requiring interpersonal interaction, communication with customers, or outdoor work, fat women earn 5% less than normal women.

　　“This is a phenomenon that has existed in the workplace for a long time. But now that the number of obese people is increasing, the problem is becoming more apparent. We need to give more respect to fat women.”

　　Joanne Ikeda, a retired nutritionist at the University of California, Berkeley, said the results of the study were not surprising.

　　“Many studies show that fat people suffer discrimination in housing, employment, college admissions, etc.,” employers can fire you just because you are fat.”

　　Only in a few cities, such as Los Angeles and Ithaca, have laws been passed against discrimination against overweight people

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