Abstract
Considering the importance of Internet searches in obtaining information and their impact on gender beliefs between occupations, this study was conducted to display the gender status of Iranian health professionals based on Google images. We selected 19 healthcare occupations, each occupation title being searched as Farsi quotes in Google images. Nursing, general practitioners and occupational health professionals showed the largest gender gap with 95, 85, and 85%, respectively. Overall, men were dominant in most occupations. Although our study was at the national level, further research analyzing images in elsewhere of the globe is needed to help the gender inequality problem.
Author contributions
AS: Idea and concept; AS, HH and MM: writing the manuscript. HH: data collection. MM: data analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Disclosure statement
The author has no conflicts of interest to report.