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They seem to take it as a given that newspapers should show pictures of a desired gender ratio (e.g., 50/50) for a profession rather than the actual ratio. Alt
by downerending 7y ago
They seem to take it as a given that newspapers should show pictures of a desired gender ratio (e.g., 50/50) for a profession rather than the actual ratio. Although perhaps well-intended, it seems bad to have news sources move (even further) away from factual depictions of reality.
- MyHypatia 7y agoThe research question they answer is: "How different is the image‐based representation of highly gender‐segregated professions (librarian, nurse, computer programmer, civil engineer) in the physical world compared to digital spaces." Did you read the paper? They are reporting on how far the depictions are from reality. That means right now, the newspapers you read do not have an accurate depiction of reality.
- downerending 7y agoRead the abstract and glanced through the paper. Both are kind of mush, so I probably missed the main point. Note that I am not claiming that newspapers depict reality accurately. Rather, it seemed that this paper was advocating diverging further.