First designs
Do you remember our scientific questions? Now we are able to answer to one of them and see the evolution of women’s rights throughout the years, in all the economies. WBL Index is the value that indicates the extent that a woman can do something in the same way with a man, from 0 to 100. The greater value, the more equal rights for women. In the first graph, we can see the evolution of the WBL Index in each region. Note that the data set classifies the economies according to their location but the most developed countries (Australia, USA, Belgium, etc) belong to the same group called “High-Income”.
If you are curious to see the code in Vega you can take a look at this link. One image equals 1000 words. I can be seen that the progress is significant in every place of the world but still, some regions have a long way to go. We observe also that the gap widened and in 2021 the inequalities are bigger. Finally, can you see the link between women’s rights and the income of the respective economy? This is just evidence! We will further investigate that later. Be patient and stay tuned to see more!
But what about the economies? In the following graphs, you can see how the woman’s rights evolved through the years in each economy. Let’s start with Europe and Central Asia.
Yes, we thought the same! It looks like a metro map but here, all the lines have the same destination: the progress. As you may notice, in this class, not the whole of Europe is included. Only the European countries with up to upper middle income are included. We can see that the slopes are not sharp except the 00' decade when we can observe a rapid rise in a lot of countries. Note that none of them reached the maximum 100. In this class, there are also a lot of decreases which means that the laws, in a lot of countries, changed playing down the women’s position.
Let’s go more southern! The following graph comes directly from North Africa and the Middle East.
Wow! So many inequalities and rapid changes! This is the graph of the contrasts. First of all, although it is close to Africa, Malta is a European country. This is why it may look like the outlier in this graph. Looking at the graph, we observe that almost half of the examined economies stayed stable and did not show significant progress. There is also something very impressive. The United Arab Emirates in the beginning of the 70s had the lowest rates and within three years (2019–2021), it exploded to one of the highest. A similar slope we observe also in Saudi Arabia.
WBL index in South Asia
WBL indexes for this region are quite low. There is a sharp change for Nepal in the last few years but we can see that some countries are less than 50 even now. If you are interested in the script, click here.
These were our first visualizations! More interesting and fancy graphs are about to come. Stay tuned!
