In the seminar so far, I have dealt with scholarships which are unfamiliar and written with a different perspective. It is helping me develop an understanding of the nature of data I use in my own research and how certain biases and prejudices are inbuilt in the date which I am oblivious about. I often […]
In my search for data on women in labour roles, the data was diverse and often targeted on more than one aspect of labour roles. Following are the major sources: 1. The World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics by the United Nations Statistics Division which is an annual publication. It presented data on aspects like […]
When I initially began this research, I wanted to look at post-graduation placement of women who acquired a doctorate degree in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (collectively known as STEM). Unfortunately, the data contained within the Woodrow Wilson Center’s portal was insufficient to answer this question. As a result, I broadened my research to […]
I decided to do a bit a research to see what data I could easily access regarding women as heads of households across the globe. I was interested to see what countries I could find data for and in particular if the development status of a country had an effect on whether or not women […]
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 […]
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 – […]
This past week we met with Dr. Melanie Hughes to consider the practical issues of data production, management, and analysis within the social sciences. One thing that struck me was that, despite our ability to identify issues in the categorization systems presented in class, many of us were unable to express solutions to mitigate these […]
The articles for this week reveal the limitations of quantitative indicators of gender equality. Hanny Cueva Beteta notes that the general indication used to measure gender equality, the presence of female politicians at the national level, may not accurately reflect gender equality in a given society. Cueva Beteta notes that in developing countries, the ability […]