"Some studies even found that white males seen as overweight actually earn more. However, the wage penalty for women seen as overweight was consistent in each study.
Economist David Lempert, who worked for the U.S. government for over a decade, found in his analysis that an increase of 10% in a woman's body mass decreased her income by 6%. This wage cut comes on top of the fact that women already earn 20% less on average than men in the U.S."
~ Pallavi Gogoi
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1171593736/women-weight-bias-wages-workplace-wage-gap
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