Gathering data on party affiliation is hard work. Anything beyond the surface level (and to some extent even that) is fraught with all sorts of skewed reporting and biases, plus it's insanely expensive to gather comprehensive data.

Of course, how people actually vote isn't data that anyone gets, so to some extent, it's all guesswork.

The chart I've produced here is mainly intended to highlight the fact that there is a large and growing group who no longer publicly associate themselves with the two major political parties, and that at this point they are the largest demographic (they were a minority demographic in 2004).

That’s the gender pay gap you just described.

Everyone is talking about genderpaygap. But noone talks about the country paygap.

I can’t help but feel like you still have a pretty basic misunderstanding of what the words “gender pay gap” describe.

An evil overlord is not really part of it.

Yeah that's why it's bs the way it is usually presented and shown. If you want to make a point then, it is about choice and not about the pay.

Women and men chose different jobs, maybe we are not the same? Maybe women with high paying jobs are not as happy as stay home moms? Maybe not, but where is this data?

No I dont really find that remarkable. On average, men are more interrested in things and women in people. Thats why the prefference difference is mostly the same acrost the world and why the female preffered professions pay less - you sell things easier than you sell empathy.

As to the IT guys vs Nurses example - there is no person deciding these things. No evil patriarch setting the wages. I would guess that there is greater demand for IT professionals (as they generate more profit) than for nurses on the market or that there are less people capable of becoming IT professionals than those capable of becomming nurses in the population. It has nothing to do with gender.

Ah, another one for the "why tf is that not a bar/line chart" pile

Them dawgs is hell, don't they?

Yeah that sounds like a way to do it. I would just take the pay difference in each profession separately and then made an average of that.

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Main geographical gaps are the East Coast and Northwest. Depending how small you define regions obviously but interesting. Nice chart OP!

The numbers are from the UN, they should be correct.

Tbh I though it would be developed countries wasting the most, with the US on top, since our supermarkets and fridges always have to be full.

Poor african countries wasting so much is a bit shocking. Also China is pretty high in the ranking given their 1.4 billion inhabitants, in absolute numbers per country they probably waste as much as both americas+europe+oceania together.

Sort countries and give us relative gaps

They did, it doesn’t say soccer anywhere on the graph

It’s interesting that you chose social worker as an example. The gender pay gap has always been observed in bureaucratic jobs that are among the many, many critical functions in society that aren’t measured on income generating ability.

> Well its sad but it is econnomically impossible (unless you are rooting for communism) to pay a person who helps generate huge profits such as IT specialist or financial analyst the same wage as to someone who is a social services worker.

And don’t you think it’s remarkable that all over the world it’s the female dominated gigs that we just can’t seem to justify paying more for. Can’t possibly pay the nurses more even in the midst of a labour shortage … but the IT guy needs a competitive package without question. Isn’t it weird that that situation always seems to replicate along gender lines all over the world?

Forget the justice off it or any ideas about changing it, don’t you just find that phenomenon interesting? One hell of a coincidence, right?

Everyone knows it’s impossible to do two things well

Source: https://www.grid.news/story/360/2023/02/09/is-an-arctic-cold-war-coming-how-climate-change-and-the-war-in-ukraine-are-driving-tensions/

Data Source: National Institute of Polar Research

Tool: Datawrapper

Breaking news: employers often break the fucking law.

You can read the report here: https://www.unep.org/resources/report/unep-food-waste-index-report-2021

For african countries it is mainly estimates, but even if the estimation is like 20 or 30% off, it would still be way too much wasted food given the fact that many people don't even have enough food to survive.

In africa, Nigeria leads the pack as the country with the highest people living below the poverty line
The whole african continent seems to have this problem tho.

It's probably due to a lack of refrigeration and food preservatives in general. They have a more organic diet with lots of fruits and veggies, wich go bad rather quickly, and poor handling, poor packaging and lack of storage for their produce before it reaches the market contribute greatly.

Well its sad but it is econnomically impossible (unless you are rooting for communism) to pay a person who helps generate huge profits such as IT specialist or financial analyst the same wage as to someone who is a social services worker. I am not saying that its not an honourable and important profession, but generates much smaller financial value.

the developed countries seem mostly to have the largest pay gaps

Useless unless you compare the same jobs.

Very insightful. Considering what you said, would the next step in the analysis be to normalize all salaries by dividing by the profession average?

> The truth is though, that almost all pay gap is due to different carreer prefferences between the genders

Why are critical industries dominated by women paid less on average in the majority of circumstances though?