We believe that bringing awareness to the biases is the first step to making a change. Observing the gender graph project clearly reveals that the media commonly associates toxic words with women. We consume this media every day therefore subliminally inherit these biases. Much of our community believes that feminism isn’t relevant anymore as women and men have “equal rights”. Hopefully this data driven evidence will be proof of the disparities that exist in the way we perceive gender, and that we still have a long way to go.
The Gender Graph uses machine learning (word2vec) to reveal gender biases in specific media sources. Users can plot where words lie on a scale of (he) to (she), and observe the differences that exist in the way we perceive gender in the media.