Thursday, July 9, 2015

Google ad profiling: what's causing the gender discrimination?

From Sophos Naked Security:

Google ad profiling: what's causing the gender discrimination?

Researchers have found that males are more likely to be shown ads on Google that are related to high-paying jobs than are women.

This follows close on the heels of the revelation that Google image searches for "CEO" mostly turn up pictures of white men, with the first image of a female CEO that turns up being a Barbie doll.

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