Europe Archives - iMEdD Lab

The messy data sources behind the “Mapping diversity” project

23.03.2023

Snapshot captured from mappingdiversity.eu

The methodology followed regarding the sources, the data collection and the data processing as part of the EDJNet's "Mapping Diversity" project.

Applications

Mapping the honoured individuals in the streets of Europe

23.03.2023

iMEdD Lab

EDJNet looked at 145,933 streets named after individuals in 30 major European cities located in 17 different countries. Only 9% of these are named after a woman.

Stories

The gender gap in Europe’s street names is here to stay

23.03.2023

Lorenzo Ferrari, Alice Corona

Illustration accompanying article on gender gap in European street names

In 30 of Europe's biggest cities, streets named after women make up only 9 per cent of the streets dedicated to individuals. The imbalance has started to narrow in some places, but progress is too slow: at this rate, it would take centuries to really close the gap.