There has been a lot of advancement in the areas of feminism and equality since the 1930s. Segregation no longer exists in the United States, the Civil Rights Act passed, and more and more women are the workforce than ever before. However, while there have been huge strides for equality, there are still some kinks that need to be ironed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most people with access to the internet use Google for all their internet searches. A few use Bing and other search engines, but for the most part, Google is the king of search engines. Google, like all search engines and databases, is run by an algorithm, and all algorithms are created by people. And people have biases, and these biases bleed into the algorithms that people create. 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n When one types various keywords into the Google search bar, a lot of different recommended searches will appear below. When someone types in keywords that include \u2018women should\u2019 or \u2018women should not\u2019, the suggestions that appear below more often than not reflect a sexist bias. These suggestions include \u201cWomen should: stay at home, be slaves, be in the kitchen, not speak in church.\u201d2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n These ideas are not accepted in mainstream society, like they were in the 1930s. However, they still exist in the fringes of our society. I suspect that it will take several years, maybe a few decades, before these ideas fade away completely. The algorithms that create these autosuggestions have an impact on this. Everyone uses Google, from small children to elders. If a group of children come across these autosuggestions when they surf the internet, then these sexist ideas will continue to live on into the next generations, even though they are harmful. This is why Google should work to revise their search algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We as a society have made great strides towards equality, but there are a few small steps left. Even something as seemingly small as a search algorithm can help to make those steps faster. There has been a lot of advancement in the areas of feminism and equality since the 1930s. Segregation no longer exists in the United States, the Civil Rights Act passed, and more and more women are the workforce than ever before. However, while there have been huge strides for equality, there are still some kinks … Continue reading “Blog Post #4”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical","category-dighist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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