The more strongly a word representation for a profession skews in a gender direction, the more overrepresented that gender tends to be within that profession. “Word embeddings,” they write, “correlate strongly with the percentage of women in 50 occupations in the United States.”90 Looking at names, they found the same thing, with a correlation only slightly less strong; then again, the latest census data they had access to was from 1990, and so perhaps the gender distribution of names had in fact changed slightly since then.

Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, loc. 86494