What We Can Learn About the Wage Gap by Mapping Where Men and Women Live

We’re all familiar with the fact that women comprise just over half of the U.S. population. We’ve lamented the statistics that a mere 17 percent of board members at Fortune 500 companies are women, or that women hold just under 9 percent of top management positions. We know the best states for women, the worst states for women, and all those in between. What we don’t often account for is the ever-shifting geography of the female population.

A new map from Dadaviz CEO Jishai Evers does just that. Using data from the 2010 U.S. Census, Evers maps the distribution of men and women across all counties in the U.S. based on age range. The maps start by tracking residents younger than age five and end with those age 85 and above. Counties with a higher female population are represented in pink, while those with a higher male population are represented in blue. The results clearly show that the number of counties with more women increase and the number with more men decrease as each population grows older.