{"id":40664,"date":"2012-03-06T12:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40664"},"modified":"2017-09-17T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T19:03:51","slug":"a-height-discrimination-case-goes-to-chinas-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/06\/a-height-discrimination-case-goes-to-chinas-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Height Discrimination Goes to China&#8217;s Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jiang Tao, a child of farmers, graduated from law school only to discover that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/LAW\/05\/31\/dorf.height.discrimination\/\">law firms discriminate against short employees<\/a>. \u00a0After confronting minimum height requirements, he sued.<\/p>\n<p>See also guest posts from The Social Complex introducing the concept of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/11\/03\/heightism-is-a-social-construct-based-in-gender-norms\/\">heightism as a gendered prejudice<\/a> and discussing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40658\">heightism (and other icky stuff) at Hooters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiang Tao, a child of farmers, graduated from law school only to discover that law firms discriminate against short employees. \u00a0After confronting minimum height requirements, he sued. See also guest posts from The Social Complex introducing the concept of\u00a0heightism as a gendered prejudice and discussing\u00a0heightism (and other icky stuff) at Hooters. Lisa Wade, PhD is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,55,2103,2098,12467,283],"class_list":["post-40664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-heightheightism","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40664"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71487,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40664\/revisions\/71487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}