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The media abounds with stories of earnings inequality based on gender: a Google search for "women earn less than men" yields 760,000 results. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women working full-time earned 80% of what men earned in 2008, and the Economix blog recently took a look at...

As someone who hires models at an art school in Philadelphia, Jen Hagen has no problem finding young, thin, white women who will model nude.But finding anyone who is older, heavier, ethnic, or who doesn't have the typical look of a model is almost impossible, she says. Even in a recession, when...

During a breakup, my post-college boyfriend dated a woman I'll call "Licia." Dark was the day I discovered a folder of her things left at his house: the portfolio for her stint as a hand (and rear end, evidently) model.Every time her name came up after that, I dissolved into laughter about her...