Google Search thinks the most important female CEO is Barbie
The University of Washington just released a preview of a study that claims search engine results can influence people’s perceptions about how many men or women hold certain jobs. One figure quoted in the preview is that in a Google image search for CEO, only 11 percent of the people returned were women (by comparison, the university says 27 percent of CEOs in the US are women). That’s pretty crazy, so I decided to fire up incognito mode in Chrome and search Google Images as an Anonymous Internet Person to see the authentic, natural results. And, uh, the results are insane. I haven’t seen this many white men in suits since the last time I was in church.
Here’s a look, zoomed way out to 50 percent:
No women to be found. Oh,…
Source:: The Verge
