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Re:Occupational Gender Bias Prevalent in Online Images, Rutg... by MyHypatia on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:55PM (#22315417)
The 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.

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Re:Occupational Gender Bias Prevalent in Online Images, Rutg... by downerending on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:25PM (#22319504)
Read 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.

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