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  • Only 15% of hiring managers would consider hiring an overweight woman

    12/11/2017 11:29:36 AM PST · by sparklite2 · 163 replies
    Moneyish ^ | Dec. 9, 2017 | Reed Alexander
    Radio personality Shavonne Patrice Owens, 37, says she experienced weight discrimination firsthand when she applied for a daycare job in Huntsville, Alabama, two years ago. Despite having all the qualifications for the job, Owens says her friend — a former employee of the daycare center in question (whose employment later terminated) — told her the reason she was ultimately passed over for the job was because of her weight. Owens, who was 525 pounds at 5’11” at the time of her interview with the daycare center, said that this incident “hurt for a second, just for a second… but I...