"Although these technologies are reflecting the gender biases in society, they are also reflecting the lack of diversity in the design teams. There is a dearth of women in the technology and computer programming sectors, which face a “leaky pipeline” whereby women who enter these domains are less likely to reach a position where they have influence and decision-making powers."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2026/03/09/ais-are-designed-and-trained-by-men-to-be-sexist-towards-women/

"Around 80 percent of deep-tech companies are founded by all-male teams, which receive nearly 90 percent of venture funding."

"The central conclusion of the study is clear: Europe does not lack women innovators — it lacks the systems needed to measure, fund and scale them consistently."

https://www.politico.eu/sponsored-content/measuring-the-deep-tech-gender-gap/

"What do Americans know about Rebecca Northen? Not very much. She has been called the “Julia Child of Orchids,” and her name appeared in dozens of newspaper articles during the mid-1900s. But unlike the celebrity chef, it is hard to find information about Northen’s life and work ... Northen’s influence has been broad, but the woman herself has largely disappeared from historical records. How did this happen? And how many other women are like her?"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/01/13/where-are-all-the-women-notability-and-digital-discovery/

"[Mohamed Genedy's] research analyzes more than 31,000 new ventures founded in Sweden between 2004 and 2018. It finds that in male-led startups, scaling reduces the odds of hiring a woman by about 18%, and the odds of appointing a woman to a managerial position by 22%."

"The study additionally shows that these patterns are not driven by founder gender alone. Even solo female-led ventures display similar tendencies when scaling, though to a somewhat lesser degree."

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-large-scaling-startups-gender-gaps.html

"A new study examining bias in AI-generated video reveals that the leading AI video creation tools significantly underrepresent women in the legal profession, depicting female lawyers at rates far below their actual numbers in the workforce."

"only 21.62% of lawyers depicted...were represented as women.

This is barely half the real-world figure. According to 2023 American Bar Association data cited in the study, women make up 41.2% of the legal profession"

https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/ai-video-tools-depict-lawyers-and-judges-as-women-at-far-lower-rates-than-real-life-new-study-finds.html

"A study published this week in PLoS Biology found that research articles authored by women spend 7.4 to 14.6 percent longer under review than articles authored by their male peers."

https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2026/gender-publishing-gap

"After she posted about what was happening, St. Clair said, a flood of people she called “Elon acolytes” responded that if she didn’t like being undressed by Grok, she should simply log off."

"In their prompts, users took existing images of women and asked Grok to remove their clothes... “Spread her legs,” requested one user...“Make her show her ass,” asked another."

"at one point last week, Grok was generating about one nonconsensual sexual image per minute"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/06/x-grok-deepfake-sexual-abuse/?itid=hp_more-top-stories_p002_f005

"The narratives between men and women aging were vastly different. Women ages 40 and older on screen were twice as likely as men to have a narrative focused on physical aging (15% vs. 7%). Overall, 23 characters shown engaging in cosmetic treatments, 17 (74%) were women. Male characters’ treatments were minor (i.e., dye for graying hair, nose-hair trimming, Botox), while women’s treatments often involved surgery or fantastical interventions to restore youth"

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/geena-davis-institute-menopause-films-1236601041/