Women and Weight-Based Employment Discrimination

Authors

Alexandra W. Griffin, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Abstract

The note argues that weight-based employment discrimination disproportionately affects women, contributing significantly to the gender wage gap. It advocates for recognizing this issue as a feminist concern and urges the use of existing legal frameworks and social change to address it.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Labor and Employment Law | Law | Law and Gender

Recommended Citation

Alexandra W. Griffin, Women and Weight-Based Employment Discrimination, 13 Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just. 631 (2007).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozoersj/vol13/iss3/6