Image search results in Google still reflect gender bias. A search for an occupation, such as ’CEO,” yielded results with a ratio of cis-male and cis-female presenting people that match the current statistics. But when UW researchers added another search term - for example, ’CEO United States” - the image search returned fewer photos of cis-female presenting people. University of Washington
Image search results in Google still reflect gender bias. A search for an occupation, such as 'CEO,” yielded results with a ratio of cis-male and cis-female presenting people that match the current statistics. But when UW researchers added another search term - for example, 'CEO United States” - the image search returned fewer photos of cis-female presenting people. University of Washington - We use Google's image search to help us understand the world around us. For example, a search about a certain profession, "truck driver” for instance, should yield images that show us a representative smattering of people who drive trucks for a living. But in 2015, University of Washington researchers found that when searching for a variety of occupations - including "CEO” - women were significantly underrepresented in the image results , and that these results can change searchers- worldviews. Since then, Google has claimed to have fixed this issue.
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