The UK Online Gender Audit 2018: A comprehensive audit of gender within the UK's online environment.

ABSTRACT: 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 an

SUBMITTER: Huluba AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288449 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature