It’s common to see singers who are women, but the people who write…
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Rarity of songwriters who are women for popular songs
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More gender-neutral names
Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names…
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World Bank’s Gender Data Portal
In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their…
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Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain
Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…
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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.…
