The pct of women working inwards the States has fallen since the plough of the century. The New York Times has mapped the pct of women (between the ages of 25 as well as 54) who are currently working inwards each census tract.
Each census tract on the map is colored to exhibit where the pct of women working is higher upwards or below the average. You tin click on each tract itself to thought the actual pct 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 as well as economical issues around areas where at that topographic point are higher or lower percentages of women inwards the workforce.
The map itself uses an Albers Equal-Area Conic projection. In a postal service on Vis4.net Gregor Aisch explains the argue for choosing this projection as well as the tools used inwards creating the map tiles for this visualization.
