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Women more often hired after losing weight on GLP-1s: Study
Key takeaways
- The research paper showed that the employment rate for women who weren t working before taking the weight loss drugs rose 27 percent after about a year and a half of taking GLP-1s.
- Mass pharmacological weight loss is not only a health shock.
- The arrangements that do not respond are the ones already in place, where any first impression occurred long ago and where weight is one characteristic embedded in a much richer stock of information, she added.
Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.
Rebecca Diamond, an economics professor at Harvard University, told Business Insider she conducted the study after talking to a friend who made a comment about being treated better after losing weight from using GLP-1 drugs.
The research paper showed that the employment rate for women who weren t working before taking the weight loss drugs rose 27 percent after about a year and a half of taking GLP-1s.
Mass pharmacological weight loss is not only a health shock. It is also a shock to the social and labor-market valuation of body weight, Diamond wrote. What does not change for women is equally informative.
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