Coincidence???

I am working at a client site this week.

The office has 10 women working in it.
3 of them are normal-average weight.
7 of them are overweight (3 of them, I believe are morbidly obese, 2 of the appear to be super morbidly obese)

The director, and the 2 supervisors are the average/normal bmi ones.

In my company, there are few female executives ---- and none that I am aware of that are morbidly obese ------ how about where you work???

I dont believe it is a coincidence... I have worked in few to no places where any of the female execs were overweight. Ive always assumed that somehow it was for "marketing" purposes.

We have very few women managers at my work place, I'm one of them and had a bmi of 46 when I had surgery. Was fat when promoted so it wasn't like I got fat once I got the job. Of the other female mangers I know -- a couple are overweight, perhaps on the lower end of obese and one is super morbidly obese. One is pretty close to thin.

That's an interesting question, Kath.

In the past I've had many male managers who were overweight or obese, but only one female.

I now work in a female ghetto (a JC Penney store). The store manager is normal weight, and our district manager is right on the edge of normal to overweight. Out of the 30 or so associates in the store, all the supervisors are normal weight. One customer service associate is obese, and one stockroom person is overweight.

I've noticed that our store manager tends to assign slender, pretty females to the front of the store (where most customers first enter) and the rest of us to the back of the store. When we're having a special event and need to have greeters at the front door, it's always the slender, pretty females (usually the young ones) that get assigned to that duty.

I'm not sure I would do it any differently, though. The pretty youngsters often don't have the experience and skill set that us oldsters have, so they're easier to move around than the rest of us.

Jean