Overweight women suffer major discrimination in the workplace. Jobs site Fairy God Boss recently carried out a survey of 500 hiring professionals, who were shown a picture of an overweight woman and asked if they’d consider employing her. Only 15.6 percent of them said that they would. Plus, one in five hiring personnel characterized the woman as “lazy,” and slightly more — 21 percent — called her “unprofessional.” This is particularly troubling for much of America’s female workforce. Indeed, nearly four in 10 adult women (38.3 percent) are obese, according to government data — a higher percentage than for men (34.3 percent.) And even more are overweight, meaning that about two out of three women …
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