Table of Contents

• 1 Gender Gap Grader
• 2 References
• 3 See also
• 4 External links

Gender Gap Grader

The Gender Gap Grader is about measuring the gender gap across all professional fields.

• Mission statement

Gender Gap Grader’s mission is to publish gender gap estimates at the finest grain level, using whatever reference database we can identify for a particular industry: The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for the film industry, “The Airman Database” for pilots, “The AngelList” for startups and investors, scientists … and more to come.

• Methodology and tools

The estimates are produced using open data and applied onomastics from NamSor, to infer the likely gender of a personal name with high accuracy.

The toolkit includes open source components for popular data mining tools and languages,

• Power BI Desktop is a free, stand-alone application from Microsoft. It has rich, easy-to-use analytic capabilities and makes it painless to bring in data from a variety of sources. With the open source connector, any PowerBI table that has personal names can be enriched with gender information or other diversity analytics (country of origin / ethnicity …) Example: the Gender Gap in M&A.

• Other alternative include : RapidMiner, nomine R Package, or using directly the Gender API with python or other computer languages.

References

The toolkit has been used in academia for various studies,

• EU Commission SheFigures (2015)
• The Gender Gap in Computer Science — A Bibliometric Analysis (2018)
• The US government’s National Science Foundation’s (NSF), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) gender report (2018)
• Elsevier Gender in the Global Research Landscape Report (2017)

See also

• Gender Gap in Start-Ups

External links

• Gender Gap Grader
• NamSor Gender API
• Open Source PowerBI Connector on GitHub