Paychecks and …

… Yes, paychecks and body size. The latter correlates with the former.

MINNEAPOLIS — It’s an endless cultural lesson that’s been drilled into our heads since we were tots, watching cartoons such as “The Flintstones” and playing with Barbie and Ken dolls: If you are a woman, you should be extremely thin; if you are a man, you should be big and strong.

And while we’ve grown accustomed to research finding that such stereotypes play out in the workplace — overweight and obese women, for example, have a harder time ascending the career staircase — a recent study has found that a worker’s girth can have an appreciable impact on the size of his or her paycheck.

How so? (Glad you asked.)

The study found that thin women are paid significantly more than their average-size counterparts, while heavier women make less. Skinnier-than-average men, on the other hand, cash smaller paychecks than their average-weight peers.