The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment
Gender inequality has exploded as a recent issue within mainstream media across US and UK cultural commentary. High-profile scandals of sexual harassment and gender pay differences have focused attention on the on-going disparity between sexes and political status. This paper presents a novel experi...
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| description | Gender inequality has exploded as a recent issue within mainstream media across US and UK cultural commentary. High-profile scandals of sexual harassment and gender pay differences have focused attention on the on-going disparity between sexes and political status. This paper presents a novel experiment in the application of so-called “big data” to analyse gender inequality. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in the form of Natural Language Processing, a web crawler is used to audit the whole.uk online domain, and to measure the United Kingdom's (UK's) online economic presence for gender representation in terms of: prominence, job roles, and leadership within and across economic sectors. The procedure scans over 200 million web pages, and harvests 157,032 organisations and over 2.3 million people. The results reveal material bias (60%+) towards the representation of men over the majority of economic sectors, and across representation of power and status within job roles and professional titles. The experiment highlights not only new levels of gender bias but also the use of the Internet as a valuable source of plentiful data for social and economic analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-789a8637734349928ec439b589a99fb32022-12-22T00:39:28ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402018-12-01412e01001The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environmentAna-Maria Huluba0Jason Kingdon1Iain McLaren2Corresponding author.; Glass, London, United KingdomGlass, London, United KingdomGlass, London, United KingdomGender inequality has exploded as a recent issue within mainstream media across US and UK cultural commentary. High-profile scandals of sexual harassment and gender pay differences have focused attention on the on-going disparity between sexes and political status. This paper presents a novel experiment in the application of so-called “big data” to analyse gender inequality. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in the form of Natural Language Processing, a web crawler is used to audit the whole.uk online domain, and to measure the United Kingdom's (UK's) online economic presence for gender representation in terms of: prominence, job roles, and leadership within and across economic sectors. The procedure scans over 200 million web pages, and harvests 157,032 organisations and over 2.3 million people. The results reveal material bias (60%+) towards the representation of men over the majority of economic sectors, and across representation of power and status within job roles and professional titles. The experiment highlights not only new levels of gender bias but also the use of the Internet as a valuable source of plentiful data for social and economic analysis.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018336399Information scienceIndustry |
| spellingShingle | Ana-Maria Huluba Jason Kingdon Iain McLaren The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment Heliyon Information science Industry |
| title | The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment |
| title_full | The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment |
| title_fullStr | The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment |
| title_short | The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment |
| title_sort | uk online gender audit 2018 a comprehensive audit of gender within the uk s online environment |
| topic | Information science Industry |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018336399 |
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