From: Malcolm Gladwell:
In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or over. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58 percent. Even more strikingly, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are 6’2″ or taller. Among my CEO sample, 30 percent were 6’2″ or taller. . Of the tens of millions of American men below 5’6″, a grand total of ten–in my sample–have reached the level of CEO, which says that being short is probably as much, or more, of a handicap to corporate success as being a woman or an African-American.
....that means 2% of Fortune 500 CEOs are men under 5'6", while 4% are women and 7% are African-American. (African-American women make up less than 2%.)
...when corrected for variables like age and gender and weight, an inch of height is worth $789 a year in salary. That means that a person who is six feet tall, but who is otherwise identical to someone who is five foot five, will make on average $5,525 more per year.
Height restrictions in Ivy League Schools
Sperm Bank height requirements
FDA rules that healthy short kids have a disease called "idiopathic short stature"
Boys committing suicide due to height bullying
http://thesocialcomplex.tumblr.com/post/98522110949/14-year-old-bullied-to-death-for-being-short
http://thesocialcomplex.tumblr.com/post/98520339484/the-truth
http://thesocialcomplex.tumblr.com/post/98520339484/the-truth
Wage gap due to height discrimination greater than gender
http://www.livescience.com/5552-taller-people-earn-money.html ("Height was found to be more important than gender in determining
income.")
Shorter candidates less likely to be hired or promoted
http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/246/218
("One business expert has suggested that an additional four inches in
height “makes much more difference in terms of success in a business
career than any paper qualifications you have” and that
it would be better to be “5 ft. 10 and a graduate of N.Y.U.’s business
school than 5 ft. 6 and a Harvard Business School graduate.” Another
commentator concluded that “being short is probably as
much, or more, of a handicap to corporate success as being a woman or an
African American.”") and http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/height_discrimination_short_guys_finish_last/
Short people less likely to win elections
