What Google tells us about working women; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/21/15

Danielle Paquette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; What Google tells us about working women:

"Researchers at the University of Washington recently analyzed the top 100 Google image search results for 45 professions, including not only chief executives but doctors, welders and bartenders. They found female workers are generally underrepresented online, compared to occupation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 27 percent of American CEOs, for example, are women. But only 11 percent of the Google image results for “CEO” showed women (not including Barbie).

In addition, many images retrieved by the web’s top search engine happen to be hyper-sexualized caricatures."