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Study: Women Less Likely To Be Shown Ads For High-paid Jobs On Google
An anonymous reader writes: A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has found that women seeking jobs are less likely to be shown ads on Google for high-paying jobs than men. The researchers created more than 17,000 fake profiles, which were shown roughly 600,000 ads on career-finding websites (abstract). All of the profiles shared the same browsing behavior. "One experiment showed that Google displayed adverts for a career coaching service for '$200k+' executive jobs 1,852 times to the male group and only 318 times to the female group." The article notes, "Google allows users to opt out of behavioral advertising and provides a system to see why users were shown ads and to customize their ad settings. But the study suggests that there is a transparency and overt discrimination issue in the wider advertising landscape."
*Grabs Popcorn* It seems Feminist Friday and SJW Saturday came early this week.
Why does Carnegie Mellon imply that women should be shown stupider ads than the present algorithm identifies?
Because patriarchy.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
"Earn $200K a year by doing nothing!" Is it a scam, or an ad from the back of the Economist?
Licking My Own Leg. On the internet nobody knows you are a dog.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."