title: Physical capital and the embodied nature of income inequality: gender differences in the effect of body size on workers' incomes in Canada.
abstract: This study assesses the effects of body size--measured using the body mass index--on the income attainment of female and male workers in Canada. Using data from a national representative sample of Canadians, multivariate analyses show that, for female workers, the body size-income relationship is negative. However, for male workers, the body size-income relationship is positive and nonlinear. Using Bourdieu's conceptualization of physical capital, and Shilling's extension of it, it is argued that these results are suggestive of the relative importance of body size to the production and continuation of gender income inequality in Canada.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Dr., Lethbridge, AB, Canada T1K 3M4. thomas.perks@uleth.ca
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Perks
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D049628:Body Size; D002170:Canada; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors