Top 10: Girls VS. Stereotypes
Replacing stereotypes with diverse, powerful, girl-approved imagery.
Natalie Brennan
In August we kicked off the "Girls VS. Stereotypes" Topic in collaboration with Unsplash for Good and Plan International USA, a long-standing girls’ rights organization. This topic called for photos of real, confident girls that break barriers and promote gender equality.
Plan enlisted their Girls Out Loud panel, comprised of US-based girls ages 13-18, to hand-select the images that most accurately and authentically represent girls today.
Thank you to everyone who submitted to this topic. Here are the top 10 images that got a perfect score when polled with the panel (in no specific order).
Good Faces
MI PHAM
Alex McCarthy
Vigneshwar Rajkumar
Jana Sabeth
Omid Armin
Umar ben
Jakayla Toney
Catherine A G M
Ying Ge
See a collection of the top 100 images from our Girls VS. Stereotypes Topic here.
The New "Girl" Search
To further the impact of this campaign, we've added diversity tags to the accepted images from this Topic to help more inclusive photos appear higher in Search and combat some of AI's biases.
Hear from Unsplash engineer Roberta who was instrumental in designing this ability to update search.
“As a woman from the engineering team at Unsplash I speak from my heart when I say that improving the results of female images for certain search terms lies at the core of my priorities. When you see disappointing results, we either lack images or we do have images that could fit that search but they haven’t been tagged for that term. There's also the challenge of balancing data from different sources. More downloads of a certain image for a term means that the photo is adequate for that search but doesn't necessarily means we're showing a good representation of images. As we work on the algorithm our community work can make a significant difference in showing the images that we as users would like to see there."— Roberta Doyle, API Engineer
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