Working Women

Working Women Can't Get in the Picture

There are wide gender discrepancies online between female and male job searches online. An overlooked and understudy facet of that gap is what people see when they search for images of jobs like CEOs, doctors, and teachers.

Pew found that if you search for an image of a mechanic, about a quarter of images will be of female mechanics. According to data Pew gathered from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only about 2 percent of women are actually mechanics. On the other end of the spectrum, only about three in ten images of bartenders will be women on the internet, though 57 percent of bartenders are women.

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This chart shows the percent of women appearing in an online image search for a job vs. the actual percent of women in each job.

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Share of people in Sweden searching and applying for jobs online from 2015 to 2023, by gender
Share of people in Denmark searching and applying for jobs online from 2015 to 2025, by gender
Share of people in Finland searching and applying for jobs online from 2015 to 2025, by gender
Percentage of people with occupation in the arts, design, entertainment, sports or media by gender in the U.S. 2005-2009 average*
Share of people in Norway searching and applying for jobs online from 2015 to 2025, by gender
Share of people in Spain searching and applying for jobs online from 2015 to 2025, by gender

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