FYI@Librarian: Research Study: Female Librarians and Male Computer Programmers? Gender Bias in Occupational Images on Digital Media Platforms

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Research Study: Female Librarians and Male Computer Programmers? Gender Bias in Occupational Images on Digital Media Platforms

Research Study: Female Librarians and Male Computer Programmers? Gender Bias in Occupational Images on Digital Media Platforms

Women were overrepresented as librarians and nurses and underrepresented as computer programmers and civil engineers, especially when the collection and curation of content is largely automated by an algorithm, such as on Twitter, showed the findings.

For the study, the researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, analysed search results for images of people in each of the four occupations on four digital media platforms: Twitter, NYTimes.com, Wikipedia and Shutterstock.