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Appearance Discrimination: Lookism and the Cost to the American Woman

@inproceedings{Adomaitis2017AppearanceDL,
  title={Appearance Discrimination: Lookism and the Cost to the American Woman},
  author={Alyssa Dana Dana Adomaitis and Rachel Raskin and Diana Saiki},
  year={2017}
}
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