Obese women do not take on work in shops and restaurants

"Many organizations services, such as shops, bars, Café, restaurants, Hotels, prefer to hire people with “correct” appearance, appropriate to their corporate image, said the study's lead author Professor Dennis Nixon (Dennis Nickson) from the University of Strathclyde. Is a key element of human appearance is its weight. Then, that people who are overweight or obese are subjected to labour discrimination, is not news. But our study showed, that in the service sector with the phenomenon even women with normal body mass index».

The results of a study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

During the study, researchers asked 120 people distribute photos 32 men and women on a degree of validity to two types of work: the one they had to communicate with customers (for example, as a waiter or Manager), and on the other is not (eg, When working in the kitchen). While participants said, What all these people have the same qualifications to perform this kind of duties. Each of the images needed to rank on a scale of 1 (absolutely not suitable) to 7 (extremely suitable).

Participants did not know, photos of four men and four women was shown twice. For the first time in its original form, and the second is just a modified (Digital methods these people gaining a few pounds). At the same time, such artificial "thickening" has not led to the exit outside the boundaries of normal body mass index.

As a result, participants ranked the "full" version of these images is much lower, than "thin". Particularly badly affected this discrimination depicted in the images of women — the participants reacted very negatively to accept their "thickened" versions to work, associated with customer service. The "Full" version of women's images are perceived by the participants even more negatively, than photo men, clearly having overweight.

"It looks like, that even minimal changes in form, size and weight can affect the, as will be seen by employers soiskatel′nicy vacancies», — authors write.

People who are overweight are regularly subjected to attacks, Despite the fact that specialists in metabolic diseases call stop discrimination based on weight.