A few weeks ago, our colleague posted about whether obesity would become a protected class.

Biases based upon appearance don’t end with obesity.  Studies show that:

• Tall people get paid more;
• Attractive people are hired more frequently…
• Unless those people are attractive women, who get hired less frequently (apparently because of a variant of the “dumb blonde” bias).

Can our current set of federal, state, and local discrimination laws and regulations properly address appearance-based discrimination?  Or does this bias demand that unattractiveness be made a new protected class?