Global Gender Gap Analysis

• Main Author: Sisi Zhang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723976; https://zenodo.org/record/4723976

Introduction: This data visualization is going to analyze the global gender gap from 2016 to 2020. It will visualize the change of the gap in healthcare, education, economics and politics. The datasets are download from WORD BANK and cleaned with excel, the missing values are filled according to the global gender gap report from WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM. I use Tableau as the visualization tool and the website is building based on a free template from TEMPLATED. Key findings: Western Europe region has the highest average gender gap index every year from 2016-2020 Global average gender gap index of health and education aspects are close to 1, then followed by economy and politics Half of the top 10 countries are from Western Europe, and Iceland is the top one every year The top growing country from 2016 to 2020 is the United Arab Emirates, which increase by 12%. India is growing backwards which has 8.5% decreasing The gender gap index of most of the G20 countries are growing but their global ranking is dropping In G20 countries, the top countries growing in the economy index are France (35.3%) and Saudi Arabia (62.4%) In G20 countries, the top countries growing in education from 2006 to 2020 are India (17.5%) and Saudi Arabia (11.4%) In G20 countries, the top countries growing backwards in health from 2006 to 2020 are India (-71.3%) and United States (-66.4%) In G20 countries, the top countries growing in politics from 2006 to 2020 are France (339.4%), Italy (258.9%), United States (239.9%) In G20 countries, the top country growing overall from 2006 to 2020 is France (20.2%) Over 14 years, the United States has historically high ranking is NO.17, from 2019 to 2020 there is a huge jump from NO. 53 to NO. 30, which is because of the score increase in politics As for 2020, United States closes the gender gap in education, which has the index 1. The gender gap index for health is 0.97, then followed by the economy index 0.754 and politics is the least which has an index of 0.329 In the United States, the gender gap still exists in education, for instance in information technologies, STEMS, and engineering area For the United States health index, the male has a higher born rate, every 1000 males born with 944 females. Females have a higher healthy life expectancy than males For the United States economy index, a large gender gap still exists in estimated earned income, wage equality for similar work, etc. For United States political empowerment opportunity, the female has 27.3% in parliament and 46.2% in ministerial positions