Men Outnumber Women by Far in News Photos Posted to Facebook

Pew Research Center studied images from 17 national outlets

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If you look at images posted to Facebook by news organizations, you are far more likely to see men than women, according to a new study from Pew Research Center.

Pew analyzed images posted (publicly) to the social network by 17 national news outlets between April 1 and June 30, 2018, using a computational method it calls machine vision to determine the genders of people who were depicted in them.

Men made up 67% of the 53,067 individuals who were identified in those photos, while women accounted for just 33%.

Pew Research Center

And in news photos that contained identifiable human faces, 53% showed exclusively men, while just 22% were women-only.

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