Is Your Body Shape Helping or Hurting Your Career
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Lose That Baby Weight and Earn More Money!

Nancy Etcoff, a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the author of the book Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, says the image we project can influence our destiny.
“Tons of research shows there are a lot of advantages for people who are considered beautiful or attractive, everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom,” Dr. Etcoff says.
A 2009 UCLA study found that overweight people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals and that their brains appear 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals.
Is it any wonder that women are having laser liposuction to be at their best? In a Journal of Applied Pyschology study it shows that slim women tend to have fatter paychecks than average or overweight women.
In the WSJ blog “The Juggle”, they reported that in looking at the differences of wages between men and women of different sizes, the study’s author identified significant gaps. Women who weighed 25 pounds less than average-sized women in the sampling earned an average of $15,572 more. On the other hand, a woman who weighed 25 pounds more than normal-sized women made $13,847 less than their average counterparts.
Overweight employees are assumed to lack self-discipline, be lazy, less conscientious, less competent, sloppy, disagreeable, and emotionally unstable. Obese employees are also believed to think slower, have poorer attendance records, and be poor role models. (Puhl et al., 2001)
Have you ever thought about if your career was helped or hurt by your weight?
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