gender

Nobel Prize for research in global labor markets, using historical data

Statistics / Claudia Goldin, economics, gender, Nobel Prize, work

Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard, has won the Nobel Prize in Economics.…
Rarity of songwriters who are women for popular songs

Infographics / Ashley Cai, Chris Dalla Riva, gender, music, Pudding

It’s common to see singers who are women, but the people who write…
More gender-neutral names

Statistical Visualization / gender, Georgios Karamanis, names

Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names…
World Bank’s Gender Data Portal

Data Sources / gender, World Bank

In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their…
Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain

Statistical Visualization / bias, gender, New York Times, work

Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…
Words used to describe men and women’s bodies in literature

Infographics / body, Erin Davis, gender, Liana Sposto, literature, Pudding, words

Authors tend to focus on different body parts for men and women, and…
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Straying from the Blue-Pink Color Scheme to Represent Gender in Visualization (The Process #55)

The Process / color, gender

The blue and pink color scheme for boys and girls, respectively, used to be the norm. Now, not so much.
The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History

Data Underload / gender, names

We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?
A Day in the Life: Women and Men

Data Underload / gender, time use

Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ. Watch it play out in this animation.
Math gender gap bigger in richer school districts

Statistical Visualization / gender, math, school, Upshot

This is quite the scatterplot from Claire Cain Miller and Kevin Quealy for…
Who Earns More Income in American Households?

Data Underload / gender, income, work

Compared to 1970, a shift towards women making the higher income.
Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950

Data Underload / gender, work

The shifting majorities of the sexes in the workplace.
He vs. She in film screenplay direction

Statistical Visualization / gender, tropes

In screenplays, there are directions that tell actors and actresses what to do…
Gender representation in comic books

Statistical Visualization / comics, gender, The Pudding

Amanda Shendruk for The Pudding analyzed how genders are represented differently in comic…
Gender pay gaps for major U.S. occupations

Statistical Visualization / gender, pay gap, Wall Street Journal

As we all know these days, there exists a gender pay gap across…
Gender prediction through trivia performance

Statistics / correlation, gender, prediction, trivia

Todd Schneider likes trivia, and he plays in an online league called LearnedLeague.…
Playing chicken on the street and the ultimate battle for power

Self-surveillance / gender, walking

There’s the unspoken agreement between two people who walk directly towards each other.…
Professor ratings by gender and discipline

Statistical Visualization / education, gender

Based on about 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessor, this tool by Ben Schmidt…
Where and why men outnumber women

Statistical Visualization / gender, World Bank

There are an estimated 60 million more men than women on this planet,…
Decline of women in computer science

Statistical Visualization / computer science, gender, NPR

NPR spent some time on the subject of the decline of women in…

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