Women Earning More in NY and Visual Statistics

Just in from the NY Times (via Good Magazine):

"Young women in New York and several of the nation’s other largest cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages, according to an analysis of recent census data."

Full story here. Nice visual to the right.

If you're interested in statistics expressed visually then we recommend http://www.gapminder.org/

It has been used to look at the number of women in parliament as an indicator of equality (alas, only available in Swedish) amongst other uses. But try your own selection from the many indicators available here: http://tools.google.com/gapminder/