Gender Inequality Around The World

14 min readOct 18, 2020

Let’s explore different avenues such as Pay, Workplace, Pension, Mobility, Marriage, Parenthood, Assets and Entrepreneurship to better understand gender inequality.
The goal of my project is to provide insightful visualizations that speak about gender inequality and add value to pre-existing contributions on MakeOver Monday.

Existing Visualization on MakeOver Monday

We can see that the two charts on the top display information in terms of index score. Index score has a value of 0 for no and 20 points for yes. The questions are in support of gender equality. Hence, the higher the scores the better the country implements gender equality. And in the chart below we can see the counts pertaining to each question.

Improving Existing Visualization

The visual charts have been generalized in regards to all sub issues. I will be focusing on each topic and subtopic specifically for greater clarity. Instead of focusing on countries doing better, my focus is to highlight countries and regions where inequality still exists. I am also focusing on recent data in between 2010–2020 that gives us better idea of recent inequality trends.

Let’s explore!

Dashboard Links

Link to the existing data visualization on Makeover Monday

Link to the new data visualization

https://public.tableau.com/profile/pooja1493#!/vizhome/GenderInequality_16057323235590/Mobility (Tab Mobility — East Asia & Pacific)

Analysis & Conclusion

Let’s look at the regions with gender based differences. The columns are regions corresponding to the sum of number of years (when there has been gender based differences).

We can see that gender based differences are highest in Sub- Saharan Africa followed by Middle East & North Africa then East Asia & Pacific , Latin America & Caribbean.

Gender based differences are lowest in High Income OECD followed by South Asia followed by Europe & Central Asia.

Here’s the in detail breakdown per issue based on regions and countries with most differences

https://public.tableau.com/profile/pooja1493#!/vizhome/GenderInequality-RegionCountry/RegionCountryBasedDifferences?publish=yes

Additional Screenshots of gender inequality issues based on regions:-