Women more often hired after losing weight on GLP-1s: Study

(NewsNation) — A recent study shows women who are on GLP-1s weren’t just losing weight but also increasing their chances of getting hired at a new job.

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.”

“The arrangements that do not respond are the ones already in place, where........

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