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Obesity: Disability or Public Health Crisis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

H. Kristl Davison  and
Mark N. Bing
H. Kristl Davison*
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
Mark N. Bing
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
*
E-mail: kdavison@bus.olemiss.edu, Address: Department of Management, School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677
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In their article, Ruggs, Law, Cox, Roehling, Wiener, Hebl, and Barron (2013) address a number of underresearched groups that are subject to discrimination. We applaud the authors for calling attention to the neglected groups in the study of discrimination. However, it is likely that researchers have neglected some of these groups for practical reasons as the discrimination against these groups is either less intense or less widespread. For example, religious discrimination has accounted for between 2% and 4% of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges, whereas race and sex discrimination together have accounted for approximately 65% of discrimination charges (EEOC, 2012a).

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 96 - 99
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013 

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