Googling Women International

In  response to Professor Brundage’s post, I decided to do the search myself and this is what I came up with. The article said that this Google search was particular to results found in America so I decided to do similar searches under Google India and Google Spain.

Searches Under Google.com:

Google India:

Google Espana:

For the first post, I searched “women need” in Spanish. The results I got were women need company, women need money, women need help and women need men.

For the second search, I looked up “women do not know” in Spanish and the top choices were, women do not know how to read maps, women do not know what they want, women do not know to drive, and women do not know to lead.

Clearly, this issue is not just limited to the US and the fact that so many of the same stereotypes and oppressive thoughts exist around the world is alarming. These searches were done in countries that are very different from the US culturally, but apparently in terms of what women should and shouldn’t do, what they can and cannot accomplish, we have come to the incorrect general consensus.