The dimension I chose for gender inequality was advanced degrees awarded at the PhD level. I wanted to learn what the disparity between males and females were for awarded advanced degrees, how this compared to undergraduate degrees, and which countries had the most equal rates of degrees awarded by gender. The most important indicator for […]
While exploring the dataset this week I couldn’t (as someone trained in rhetoric and composition) get past the fact that countries with unequal access to power were termed “pursuing parity.” To me that was a way of packaging the blow that these countries were at the bottom of the spectrum in a “works-in-progress” sort of […]
For this exercise, I was interested in data regarding gender and museum professions, and more specifically data that provide information on the percentage and professional distribution of women employed by art museums. I was hoping to find cross-national sources of data on the gender composition of art museum employees, but much of what I came […]
The most vivid image I keep from our last seminar session is one of the transforming shape sorting cube. I refer to the analogy of how a search engine creates a result (could we say knowledge?) by using our search questions in the way similar to how a toddler’s cube toy would change the shape […]
In the 1960s and 1970s, on the back of Cold War global politics, several South American countries experienced right-wing, military coups d’état in response to perceived internal and external threats from communism (and other “subversions”). During this tumultuous time, the state violated many individuals’ human rights because of their association with specific social groups – […]
In the 1960s and 1970s, on the back of Cold War global politics, several South American countries experienced right-wing, military coups d’état in response to perceived internal and external threats from communism (and other “subversions”). During this tumultuous time, the state violated many individuals’ human rights because of their association with specific social groups – […]