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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."
Glad to see you like your information filtered by arbitrary rules....
You are so right! It's not like there are job titles with "Social Justice" in it. Like "Social Justice Attorney" and there are definitely 0 search results for "Social justice jobs"... There is no such thing as social justice and there are no such people that take "social justice" to the extreme... like warrior monks defending their faith by ignoring the real world.
Yep, no social justice thingy majiggar here. It is just a made up thing to dismiss people I disagree with.