Obesity and hiring discrimination

RM Campos-Vazquez, E Gonzalez - Economics & Human Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
hiring decision. We do observe greater discrimination against obese women when the hiring
… However, since there are more women than men making hiring decisions, this difference …

The role of automatic obesity stereotypes in real hiring discrimination.

J Agerström, DO Rooth - Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
… matter for hiring discrimination occurring in … hiring managers' automatic stereotypes about
obese people can be predictive of their decision to invite a normal-weight relative to an obese

Obesity discrimination in the recruitment process:“You're not hired!”

SW Flint, M Čadek, SC Codreanu, V Ivić… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
… The current study provides evidence of obesity discrimination in the hiring process for
employment, where across four workplaces that vary based on the physical demands of the job, …

Bias, discrimination and obesity

R Puhl, KD Brownell - Health and Human Rights in a …, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… adequate understanding of hiring and interviewing processes … have surveyed obese
employees about their discriminatoryhiring, promotion, and benefits discrimination against obese

Obesity Discrimination in the workplace:" You're Hired"

SW Flint, SC Codreanu, A Gomoiu… - Journal of European …, 2015 - pure.qub.ac.uk
… The purpose of this study is to first identify whether obese people are discriminated against
when hiring employees. Employees of workforces that vary due to the physical demand of …

Is being obese a crime? An examination of hiring and workplace discrimination

AJ Khan, E Naseem, J Iqbal… - Middle East Journal …, 2023 - inderscienceonline.com
… is to examine the discrimination and biasness that obese people face during and after hiring
in the … that analyses the impact of obesity, explicit biasness, and implicit biasness on hiring

Too big to hire: Factors impacting weight discrimination

LK Bartels, CR Nordstrom - Management Research Review, 2013 - emerald.com
… in obesity rates in the USA, but there is limited legal protection against weight discrimination.
… may also play a role in weight discrimination in hiring decisions. Antifat attitudes may differ …

[PDF][PDF] TOO FAT FOR ME: OBESITY DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT.

P Pattison, Y Eixmann… - Southern Law …, 2016 - southern-law-journal.s3.us-east-2 …
Obese individuals are vulnerable to weight discrimination in … The presence of weight
discrimination in employment … and shows that obese employees face unfair hiring practices, …

Obesity discrimination: the role of physical appearance, personal ideology, and anti-fat prejudice

KS O'Brien, JD Latner, D Ebneter… - … journal of obesity, 2013 - nature.com
… and discriminatory behaviors’ against obese people … to obesity discrimination. We used an
innovative paradigm to establish individual levels of obesity-based employment discrimination

Addressing the problem of weight discrimination in employment

E Kristen - Calif. L. Rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
Obese, morbidly obese, and overweight are the words used most commonly in legal and
medical literature. The term "obese" is … In addition to hiring discrimination, fat people face wage …