Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…
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Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain
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Words used to describe men and women’s bodies in literature
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 blue and pink color scheme for boys and girls, respectively, used to be the norm. Now, not so much.
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The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History
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?
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A Day in the Life: Women and Men
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.
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Math gender gap bigger in richer school districts
This is quite the scatterplot from Claire Cain Miller and Kevin Quealy for…
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Who Earns More Income in American Households?
Compared to 1970, a shift towards women making the higher income.
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Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950
The shifting majorities of the sexes in the workplace.
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He vs. She in film screenplay direction
In screenplays, there are directions that tell actors and actresses what to do…
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Gender representation in comic books
Amanda Shendruk for The Pudding analyzed how genders are represented differently in comic…
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Gender pay gaps for major U.S. occupations
As we all know these days, there exists a gender pay gap across…
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Gender prediction through trivia performance
Todd Schneider likes trivia, and he plays in an online league called LearnedLeague.…
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Playing chicken on the street and the ultimate battle for power
There’s the unspoken agreement between two people who walk directly towards each other.…
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Professor ratings by gender and discipline
Based on about 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessor, this tool by Ben Schmidt…
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Where and why men outnumber women
There are an estimated 60 million more men than women on this planet,…
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Decline of women in computer science
NPR spent some time on the subject of the decline of women in…
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PhD gender gaps around the world
Periscopic, for Scientific American, visualized the number of PhDs awarded in various countries.…
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Wikipedia is dominated by male editors
After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…
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Gender wage gap, how much less women make than men
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.
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Gender and time comparisons on Twitter
Men and women are different. You know that. But do they tweet differently?…
