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Article

Gender inequality in Internet images: A case study of Iranian healthcare occupations in Google images

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Pages 1015-1022 | Received 29 Aug 2020, Accepted 11 Jan 2021, Published online: 08 Mar 2021
 

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.

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