The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology, 2020, 2(9); doi: 10.25236/FSST.2020.020920.
Hongyu Jin
Warwick University, UK
In our globalized world today, more interaction among people from diverse cultures and backgrounds are required; and diversity issues are now deemed important and projected to become even more significant in the future given the increasing differences in the U.S. population (Green, López, Wysocki & Kepner, 2002). With the focus on weight discrimination in the workplace, an important diversity issue nowadays, this paper will describe and analyze the situation in the United States and present the possible solutions of this issue with the aim of promoting workplace diversity. The first section of the paper briefly introduces the background of workplace discrimination and the article structure while the second part describes the situation in the United States by displaying some vivid examples. The author will analyzes the causes of weight discrimination and displays the cases in other countries as a comparison. The fourth part proposes some practical solutions; and in the conclusion, a summary of the article and suggestions for further research will be found.
Weight discrimination, Weight prejudice, Workplace, Employment, Workplace diversity, Obese discrimination
Hongyu Jin. Weight Prejudice in the Workplace in the United States. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 9: 92-94. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2020.020920.
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