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 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 […]
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 […]
As I was studying the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Women in Public Service Project and the Global Women’s Leadership Initiative Index, I decided to research women’s presence in the judiciaries of various countries. In terms of evaluating women’s presence in that domain, presence in the civil service, the attainment of university degrees, and presence in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
From my overachieving years in Model UN as a high school student, I’m familiar with SDGs and the impossibility of actually enacting change through multinational organizations such as those that make up the UN. But, I haven’t thought much (or at least not recently) about access to data for measuring compliance and progress toward meeting […]
The readings that we have done so far have demonstrated that data is very much subject to both present and historical biases and as such cannot be taken at face value, nor even be considered reliable and ethical. Lara Putnam, in her article “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” […]
Bonjour, my name is Arushi Sahai. I am a second-year PhD student in History of Art and Architecture Department. My area of interest is Indian Modern Architecture though in future years I hope to expand and learn about Modern Architecture of developing countries similar to India. My goal for the class is to be interdisciplinary […]