A new paper from Harvard University indicates that unemployed women using GLP-1 medications for weight loss return to work faster than those considering the drug, with an overall employment rate increase of 13 percentage points. This suggests that thinness is still associated with status and “pretty privilege” in the workplace.
Credit: Morning Brew, Inc., Photo: Getty ImagesThinness has long been synonymous with status, and while it may be uncomfortable to admit, “pretty privilege” is real, even in the wo
rkplace.A new paper from Harvard University shows that after years of body positivity efforts, unemployed women who use GLP-1 medications for weight loss are more likely to return to work faster than those who are considering t
he drug.“Their employment rate rises 13 percentage points overall and 27
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