gender

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…
PhD gender gaps around the world

Statistical Visualization / gender, Periscopic, PhD, Scientific American

Periscopic, for Scientific American, visualized the number of PhDs awarded in various countries.…
Wikipedia is dominated by male editors

Statistical Visualization / gender, Santiago Ortiz, Wikipedia

After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…
Gender wage gap, how much less women make than men

Projects / featured, gender, interactive, salary

Three or four articles on the gender wage gap popped up on my radar last week, some focusing on the rise of women as the lead household earner and others on how much less women make. I took a look.
Gender and time comparisons on Twitter

Apps / gender, time, Twitter

Men and women are different. You know that. But do they tweet differently?…