{"id":5773,"date":"2016-04-14T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2016-04-13T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:54:01","slug":"tall-thin-and-raking-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/04\/14\/tall-thin-and-raking-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall, Thin, and Raking It In"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taller men get the taller stacks. TaxCredits.net.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to British researchers, tall men and thin women are most likely to make the big bucks. Meanwhile, they found evidence to suggest overweight workers, especially women, are likely to get paid less. Still, sociologist Amy Blackstone says companies probably aren\u2019t intentionally penalizing employees based on height and weight. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In an <\/span>interview with Broadly<\/span><\/a>, Blackstone points to gender biases that extend beyond the workplace. Culturally, Americans associate thinness with beauty and self-discipline in women and tallness with authority for men. <\/span>“For women, being thin means taking up less space, something that is expected of women both literally and symbolically,\u201d Blackstone says. Thus, it\u2019s no surprise that pay reflects societal views about gender, power, and the body. Nor is it a surprise that <\/span>other<\/span><\/i> gender inequalities make their way into work spaces, like limitations on contraception coverage in employer provided health care and a lack of paid maternity leave. As contributing editor Diana Tourjee points out, \u201cpaying certain men and women less in relation to the way they look is obviously disturbing, but worse is the realization that this data is part of a broader system of oppression that structures the lived experiences of us all.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to British researchers, tall men and thin women are most likely to make the big bucks. Meanwhile, they found evidence to suggest overweight workers, especially women, are likely to get paid less. Still, sociologist Amy Blackstone says companies probably aren\u2019t intentionally penalizing employees based on height and weight. \u00a0 In an interview with Broadly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":5774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,13],"tags":[39112,470,131,39114,37393,39110,143,1431,19085],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-culture","tag-discrimination","tag-economy","tag-gender","tag-income-gap","tag-inequality","tag-labor","tag-wage","tag-wealth-gap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2016\/04\/7027587393_acd6d58bb7_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5775,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/5775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}