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Powerful career women who hold top jobs in law, medicine and business are slimming down, according official figures. They are the only social group to lose weight in the past 18 years while the study reveals everyone else is growing fatter.
官方数据显示，法律、医学及商界的高职位强势女性身材日趋苗条。调查显示，过去18年来，几乎所有人都在增胖，唯独这一群体的体重竟是下降的。
Data from the National Obesity1 Observatory2 (NOO) shows that 15 per cent of professional women were obese3 in 1997, but that figure had fallen to 14 per cent by 2008.
NOO, which has monitored obesity issues in the UK since 2007, highlighted how the percentage of professional men classified as fat rose from 15 to 20 per cent between 1997 and 2008.
Two reasons were said to behind the trend for slimmer women - they are still judged on their appearance rather than skill and their ambition to be better than their male colleagues.
Professional women are aware of a bias4 against those who are overweight, according to Andrew Hill, professor of medical psychology5 at Leeds University.
Barrister Helen Jackson, who weighs 16 stone, told the Sunday Times that obese male lawyers were accepted in her profession but female ones were not. 'The pressure on women to look the part has definitely got worse since I was called to the bar in 1975,' she said. 'Women now are slaves to their appearance more than they ever were.'
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