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Google’s iOS app Field Trip, a cool background app that alerts you to interesting things around you as you travel, now features notable women from history. If you check the Spark: Women on the Map option in the app, it will point out sites where women have played an important role in our past.
Google worked with gender equality campaign group SPARK to add the feature, reports TNW, after it pointed out to Google that its doodles featured women only 17% of the time. Google has also promised to do better there.
Field Trip so far features only 100 women, but anyone can nominate someone they feel should be included, suggesting that it may quickly grow.
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By excluding men, how does this fit with ‘gender equality’? Real question, not badgering Google (something I do do)
Heh, it’s a fair point, but I think there’s still a mass of work to be done in redressing the balance, so I think some steps like this are not unreasonable.
Good point Ben, I do understand phil’s too and sometimes felt like that too. In the case of Field Trip, it’s less of a problem because the app doesn’t soley focus on famous women but now included them a little more clear, which is good.