WF-DHC9G8
Gender Biases of Google Image Search
Google Image returns results that under-represent women in leadership roles, notably with the first photo of a female "CEO" being a Barbie doll after 11 rows of male CEOs.
- Date it happened
- 2015-04-04
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Google Images returns image results once search queries and keywords are entered by scanning the web for images with related file names and using machine learning to cluster similar images together.
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