This month, a study was released on how height and weight affect our pay brackets. On top of the gender gap, overweight women were found to be, on average, £3,000 a year worse off than a slimmer woman of the same height. Men saw a slightly different physical attribute alter their earnings – for every extra 2.5 inches in height, men’s annual income increases by nearly £1,600.
Seeing the numbers on this bias is shocking, but the findings are by no means a surprise: there has been a long-admitted “height premium” in male employment. And if our societal biases are usually reflected on the big screen, does Hollywood suffer from the same heightism?
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