Roehling is on a journey to find justice for these people who have been discriminated against because of their physical appearance.

The MSU human resource management professor led a study which concluded women were 16 times more likely than men to experience discrimination in the workplace.

Roehling said his interest in this study stems from the work he did at Cornell University in New York, where he researched different types of discrimination.

Roehling attended undergraduate and law school at the University of Michigan and later went on to earn his doctorate at MSU.

He said he hopes this research will generate knowledge that will make people more aware that women are subjects of discrimination in many work environments.

“I think this adds one more piece of empirical evidence to a growing body of research that suggests that weight discrimination is very serious,” Roehling said.

After acquiring his law degree, Roehling said he practiced a lot of employment law which was based around the fact that Michigan is the only state with laws prohibiting weight discrimination in the workplace.

Roehling lives in Holland, Mich., and said he enjoys traveling, hiking and skiing in his spare time.

He teaches classes in training and development, employment law and staffing organization in the labor and industrial relations department.

He said the best thing about teaching at MSU is “having the opportunity to interact with students who are interested and motivated.”