Table 2.

Percentage of support for policy actions to address weight stigma.

	Overall	Australia	Canada	France	Germany	United Kingdom	United States	χ 2	p
Antidiscrimination measures
1. My country should include body weight in our civil/human rights laws in order to protect people from discrimination based on their body weight.	56.7%	59.4%a	67.1%b	58.5%a	38.3%c	57.8%a	59.6%a	464.38	<.001
2. Obesity should be considered a disability so that people will be protected from weight discrimination in the workplace.	47.3%	46.5%a	53.7%b	67.4%c	34.0%d	36.0%d	45.4%a	700.30	<.001
3. The government should pass the “Weight Discrimination in Employment Act” to protect employees from discrimination in the workplace based on their body weight.	61.2%	58.7%a,e	68.6%b	75.2%c	47.1%d	54.1%a	61.8%e	499.81	<.001
4. It should be illegal for an employer to refuse to hire a qualified person because of his or her body weight.	79.3%	73.7%a	83.0%b	88.7%c	75.6%a	74.7%a	77.3%a	222.26	<.001
Weight-based bullying measures
5. Schools should implement anti-bullying policies that protect students from being bullied about their weight.	92.4%	91.7%a,c	94.4%b	93.8%a,b	89.9%c	92.2%a,b,c	91.7%a,c	45.07	<.001
6. Existing anti-bullying laws should include protections against weight-based bullying.	89.5%	88.3%a	92.7%b	92.0%b,d,e	83.4%c	89.7%a,d	89.9%a,e	140.34	<.001

Note. Participants responded on a 10-point rating scale (1=definitely would oppose – 10=definitely would support). Participant ratings of 1 to 5 were coded as not supporting the policy action; respondents selecting 6–10 were coded as supporting the policy action.¹ Different superscripts (e.g., “a” vs. “c”) in the same row indicate a significant difference at p ≤ .001.

¹Similar pattern of results emerged when examining policy support as a continuous variable.