(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-biz-121001-ikea-1015a.photoblog600.jpg)Now you see her. Now you don't. The image on the left appeared in Ikea's Swedish catalog. The same image, sans the woman, in the Saudi Arabian catalog.By Martha C. White, NBC News contributorScrubbing the bathroom got a whole new meaning in the Saudi Arabian Ikea catalog. The Swedish home and furnishings retailer faced criticism after reports surfaced that Ikea digitally erased women from pictures in the Saudi version of the catalog.
In one picture of a family in a bathroom, the mother standing at the sink with her son was removed. Even one of the retailer’s own designers, Clara Gausch, was erased from a photo featuring four of the brand’s designers.
Sweden’s trade minister Ewa Bj