Run Like a Girl! Sports-Related Gender Bias in Language and Vision

Understand

Gender bias in Language and Vision datasets and models has the potential to perpetuate harmful stereotypes and discrimination.

• We analyze gender bias in two Language and Vision datasets.
• Consistent with prior work, we find that both datasets underrepresent women, which promotes their invisibilization.
• Moreover, we hypothesize and find that a bias affects human naming choices for people playing sports: speakers produce names indicating the sport (e.g.