Extended Data Fig. 1: The lack of correlation between female representation in an occupation and its associated median age according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From: Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models
Female representation is measured by the percentage of women employed in an occupation. Panel (A) shows the raw data (with each data point showing a single occupation) for 2012 (the correlation is non-significant; r = −0.021, CI = [−0.12, 0.08], p = 0.70, Pearson Correlation, two-tailed, n = 536 occupations). Panel (B) shows the raw data (with each data point showing a single occupation) for 2023 (the correlation is non-significant; r = −0.046, CI = [−0.14, 0.05], p = 0.36, Pearson Correlation, two-tailed, n = 594 occupations). For all census years for which this data is provided in this format (from 2011 to 2023), there is not a single year with a statistically significant correlation between the fraction of women in an occupation and its associated median age (Table S1). Error bands show 95% confidence intervals.
