For dark-skinned women, the technology had an error rate of 34.7%, compared to 0.8% for fair-skinned men, according to a 2018 study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Legislation and regulation are starting to catch up with the use of facial recognition technology, which could determine that using databases without users’ consent is a privacy violation.
Business Insider Intelligence research analyst Daniel Keyes, eMarketer principal analyst Andrew Lipsman, and senior forecasting analyst at Insider Intelligence Cindy Liu discuss the biggest takeaways from how Thanksgiving holiday shopping went this year. They then talk about the best ways brands can reach female holiday shoppers during the pandemic and how Walmart and Target performed in Q3.
More than nine in 10 (91%) women in Chile felt that it was a macho country, according to a December 2020 Cadem survey for the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality. Similar sentiments were shared among women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Male chauvinism sometimes shows up in advertisers’ portrayals of men and women, too.
Looking at the history of running apparel, you notice that when women entered into sports in a meaningful way in the ’70s and ’80s, the clothing looked terrible. It was baggy and not designed for the sports that women were playing.
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) services are more popular among younger generations: 26% of US adults ages 34 and under regularly use these financing solutions, compared with just 8% of those 55 and older.