Where Women Work

The percent of women working inwards the United States of America of America has fallen since the plough of the century. The New York Times has mapped the percent of women (between the ages of 25 together with 54) who are currently working inwards each census tract.

Each census tract on the map is colored to present where the percent of women working is inwards a higher house or below the average. You tin click on each tract itself to sentiment the actual percent of women working inwards the neighborhood.

The Where Working Women Are Most Common map includes some quick links to zoom inwards on major cites. The article beneath the map also looks at some of the interesting locations revealed past times the map, exploring some of the social together with economical issues to a greater extent than or less areas where in that place are higher or lower percentages of women inwards the workforce.

The map itself uses an Albers Equal-Area Conic projection. In a post on Vis4.net Gregor Aisch explains the argue for choosing this projection together with the tools used inwards creating the map tiles for this visualization.