gender

Gender of animal characters in children’s books

Infographics / animals, gender, Melanie Walsh, Pudding

Read enough children’s books with anthropomorphic animals and you might notice that some…

Growing gender gap in ideology

Statistical Visualization / Financial Times, gender, politics

For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows the gap between men and women in…

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.