I Don't Often Feel Any Urge to Take Up Wearing 12-Inch-High Platform Shoes

[queerbychoice]

. . . but this is the kind of study that provokes such urges.

Weirdly, the article fails to comment about whether the height/salary relationship is stronger in one gender than the other and to what extent the salary effect of gender itself can be attributed to this or vice versa.

Comments

[sarianna.livejournal.com]

...but you're not short!

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

For a female I'm the exact average height, but I could still eanr a hell of a lot more if I were 6 feet tall.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Yeah... one can only guess that since they say they 'controlled' for gender, that figure was the average extra that tall people get, which means that if the effect is larger in men, that figure will be even higher for men. But the most interesting part to me was that the effect was bigger in some professions, like sales, than others. I guess if you need to sell stuff, you need to come across as big and confident.

I'd like to see the graphs broken down by smaller height categories than 'tall' and 'not tall'. I'm guessing that the effect starts pretty sharp but then tails off. That is, it's likely that, for instance, particularly short people are severely discriminated against because they're seen as less dominant and effective, and are therefore at a severe disadvantage compared to people who are about average height. But when you look at, say, the group of people who are over 6' tall, each incremental inch might not make much of a difference.

I personally never wanted to be tall, mostly because my mother was so obsessed with me being tall, and I was already at such a disadvantage compared with my friends, that I just totally gave up and purposefully didn't eat too well in order to stay short. I'm just going to hope that the profession I'd pick (clinical research or therapy) won't matter much. I mean, if you're a therapist, you're sitting most of the time you're talking to clients anyway.

[asrai-d.livejournal.com]

bad news for me about to try to find a new job.

good news for chad tho.

[rhekarid.livejournal.com]

Oh, grand. Like I'm not depressed enough about everything else.

No wonder I can't find a job...I'm so far down the pay range that I'm fired before I even apply.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're a good two inches taller than theobscure, and he's one of the few people whose lives have managed to achieve similar levels of hellishness to yours.

No heels for me!

[joannasatana.livejournal.com]

So how come, at 5'11" I aint a bazillionaire?????

even in low shoes I make it to 6'.

maybe I should email this story to my bosses.

heh.

smooch to yooch!

[monkeyinboots.livejournal.com]

WHA HA HA HA HA HAAAA!