Heightism is hard to identify. Yet there’s evidence that our biases around stature help shape our careers. In 2010, when Imran found work as a security guard at a private university in Karachi, ...

In May 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation that prohibits employment, housing and public accommodations discrimination based on a person’s height, weight or body size. There are a ...

Tinder is stirring up controversy with the trial of a new premium feature that lets users filter potential matches by height. The move, aimed at premium subscribers, has sparked a heated debate online ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

President Trump has come up with another one of his trademark nicknames, “Mini Mike,” for his newest opponent, the 5’7” Michael Bloomberg. Trump’s Twitter feed is filled with language and images that ...

Little known to many, the diminutive He Pingping passed away a couple of weeks ago. At 2 feet 5.37 inches, He held the record for being the world's shortest mobile living man. Fascinated as i am by ...

I recently watched a video from an old Newsnight programme that aired in 2014. The discussion was a response to John Bercow's suggestion a few years ago that making disparaging comments about ...

I’m petite and refuse to watch the John Travolta film, Get Shorty. Why? Because the very name puts me off. Nobody’s ever derisively called ‘Tally’, right? Worse, when something ‘stands tall’, it’s ...