How Our Own Stock Photo Search Only Proves the Point

Agency for Emerging Voices is all about relevance, credibility, and visibility– of hard work, of discipline, of access, and of setting goals. As we began to put together our new site, we were looking for a photo to capture female professionals to go along with a little comment about mentors. We asked Google to find us “stock photo businesswomen.”

Google gave us 49 white women in cookie-cutter workwear…and one pair of nice gams.

What’s the inadvertent underlying message here?