Unequal representation and gender stereotypes in image search results for occupations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 3819-3828

  Kay, Matthew ^a   Matuszek, Cynthia ^b   Munson, Sean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Gender; Image search; Inequality; Representation; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BIAS; GENDER; IMAGE SEARCH; INEQUALITY; REPRESENTATION; STEREOTYPES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84951069595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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