Tag: Women and gender

• Who gets a blue plaque?

  

  I read all 1,037 English Heritage plaques listed in London and mapped 6,476 plaques across the UK. Only 16% of the people on London’s plaques are women, but 54% of those honoured since 2020.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, buildings, cities, Commemoration, Famous people, London, OpenStreetMap, Present day, UK, Wikidata, Women and gender

• Do women leaders get angrier reactions?

  

  Women’s Facebook pages drew half the angry reactions of men’s. Then I compared like with like, and the gap disappeared.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Chance test, Facebook, Facebook reactions, Party leaders, political parties, Social Media, Women and gender

• Is Workington Man actually Workington Woman?

  

  Tory think tank Onward released a report on the 30th October detailing an important new voter group labelled ‘Workington Man’. Like Mondeo Man or Worcester Women before, the label defines the sort of voter that will win the Conservatives the election. John Curtice, renowned bespectacled psephologist has pointed to “nearly 50 Labour seats that could…

  Tristan Hotham

  2019 General Election

  2019 General Election, elections, Facebook, Northern England, Online advertising, political advertising, political parties, Women and gender