Gender Equality in AI

On building AI that actually works for half the world — representation, bias, voice, and the future we want to live in.

  • Can AI Actually Close the Gender Gap in Women's Health?

    Everyone's calling AI the fix for women's health data gaps. Seven researchers just said: not automatically — here's what actually has to change first.

  • Why Are There So Few Women Leading AI Research?

    A new report followed women through AI classrooms, labs, and startups across six countries — and found the exact point where most of them get pushed out.

  • Why Are Women, Not Men, Turning to AI Companions?

    China just banned AI boyfriends. Turns out women were the ones falling for them, and the reason says a lot about who's actually listening to us.

  • What to Do If Someone Makes an AI Deepfake of You

    Meta just made deepfakes easier to create from public photos. Here's what the law actually says, and the exact steps to take if it happens to you.

  • Are Women Actually Getting Funded to Build AI?

    That record $73.2B headline for women-founded startups? 89 cents of every dollar went to one company. Here's the real story.

  • Are Women Judged More Harshly for Using AI at Work?

    A study gave reviewers the same AI-assisted résumé under two names. His read as smart. Hers read as a red flag.

  • Do women use AI less than men? What Pew just found

    The headline says women caught up to men on AI. The footnotes tell a different story. Let's read the whole thing together.

  • Surgeons, nurses, and the words AI reaches for

    When AI hears "surgeon," it pictures a man. But here's the twist that made me sit up: the bias in its head didn't show up in how it treated women.

  • When 'fixing' AI bias goes sideways

    We talk about AI bias like it's a clean villain story. A study on ChatGPT found something stranger and worth sitting with.

  • Neither artificial nor intelligent: the cost of AI

    The word "artificial" makes AI sound weightless. It isn't. Here's what's underneath it, and why noticing matters for you.

  • The math of who's missing from AI research

    Fewer than 1 in 5 AI PhDs are women. Here's why the people missing from the lab end up shaping the AI in your pocket.

  • From search bars to chatbots: a short history of AI bias

    If a chatbot ever made you feel like an afterthought, it helps to know this didn't start with chatbots. The receipts go back years.

  • How to talk to any AI and spot its blind spots

    AI talks to you in a soft, sure voice. Here's how to tell when it actually understands you, and when it's just being agreeable.

  • AI Still Files Us Under "Home and Family"

    Two new studies dropped this month. One found 44% of AI systems show gender bias. The other found women still use AI less — and trust it less. Here's why that matters for you.

  • AI companions are booming. Who were they built for?

    Millions of people are talking to AI companions now. But peek at who they were designed for, and a familiar pattern shows up.

  • Data feminism, in plain language, for your daily life

    There's a quiet question behind every app you open: who decided what was worth measuring? Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

  • The empathy gap: when AI listens differently to women

    Ever felt like a chatbot was almost too soothing, then weirdly flat the second you shared good news? Turns out that's not in your head.

  • Who builds your AI? A few numbers worth knowing

    You talk to AI like it gets you. But the rooms where it's built are mostly men. Here's what that quietly costs us.

  • AI is getting women wrong, and a new UN report says so

    A new UN Women report names what so many of us have already felt when an algorithm answers back.

  • A women-first AI confidante is a design choice, not a gimmick

    Most AI was built with someone else in mind, then handed to you. I want to talk about what it means to be designed for you on purpose.

  • AI is still getting women wrong. The UN has the data.

    A new UN Women report audited 133 AI systems and found bias in nearly half. Here's what it means for the way you and I are being seen, and one quiet way forward.

  • AI Is Still Getting Women Wrong

    A new UN Women study audited 133 AI systems — almost half showed gender bias. Here's what stood out, and one small thing you can try this week.

  • Why Gender Equality Matters in the Design of AI

    AI designs shape how people are seen and served. If the teams building AI aren't diverse, the products will reflect a narrow view of what's "normal."