Legal Equality of Women

Infographs

Sara Habbash
Data and Society
2 min readMar 13, 2018

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This infograph is a representation of the percentage of firms with female participation in ownership, in other words, it represents the percentage of firms with a woman among the principal owners. Benchmarking female participation in firm ownership, management, and the workforce is important to achieve gender equality promotion and empowerment of women not only in the workforce, but in communities as whole.

World Bank, Enterprise Surveys

However, this infograph only shows data for the year 2016 because of what was available on the World Bank website. As a result, a more accurate representation could have been shown if there was more data available for more years.

http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/Data/ExploreTopics/gender

The load of information might make the infograph may be a little confusing or difficult to understand. However, this inforgraph, although from a different source, holds more accurate representations of female participation in the workforce. It provides information about women’s entrepreneurship and economic participation in the labor force. It shows six factors shaping the business environment, which can be accommodating or constraining for firms, and play an important role in whether a country will prosper or not. An accommodating business environment is one that encourages the participation of females in order to improve the efficient operation of firms, and strengthen the incentives for increasing innovation and productivity for more sustainable development.

This infograph is a representation of the percentage of unemployment in the female working force during the last five years.

World Bank, Enterprise Surveys

The data is clearly distributed and shown, with vivid colors that stand out for the viewer\reader’s eyes.

The last infograph depicts the percentage of females who progress to secondary schools, measured from 2004 to 2013, noting that there was no data available after 2013.

It is important to know the levels of education accessed by females all over the world, because their education is the basis for their career and their quality of lives. Hence, has an impact of the results shown in the previous infographs.

This graph presents a basic depiction of the data. Information could have been presented in a more organized way, and one that is more appealing to the way. Nonetheless, it delivers the essence of the message which is to show the percentage of females who continue into secondary schools after primary levels.

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