Sexist Street Names
Earlier this twelvemonth Zeit Online released a fascinating analysis of the most pop German linguistic communication street names. As purpose of this investigation they looked into how street names reverberate society's prejudices, beliefs too attitudes. One affair the projection revealed was the under-representation of women inwards metropolis street names.
In Streetscapes: Mozart, Marx too a Dictator Zeit Online looks at the trends of naming streets for people too historical events. One affair that they discovered is that streets are far to a greater extent than probable to locomote named for men than they are for women. For representative inwards Hamburg 2,511 streets are named afterwards men too exclusively 397 are named afterwards women.
Zeit are non the exclusively ones to convey noticed the lack of representation of women inwards the names nosotros give to our streets. Geochicas convey likewise been investigating the under-representation of women inwards street names. They convey looked at a number of Latin American too Castilian cities to explore the number of streets named for men compared to women.
Las Calles de las Mujeres is an interactive map which shows all streets named for men too women inwards Asuncion, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cochabamba, Lima too Montevideo. In each metropolis roads named for men are colored bluish too roads colored yellowish convey been named for women. The colors on the map render a quick overview of how many streets convey been named for women compared to men. Just to brand certain that at that topographic point is no dubiety nearly the number the map sidebar likewise includes a pie nautical chart that shows the percent of streets named for both men too women inwards each city.
Las Calles de las Mujeres likewise aims to celebrate the modest percent of women who convey been commemorated past times having streets named afterwards them. It has thence linked to the Wikipedia articles (where available) of the women whose names appear on the map. You tin read to a greater extent than nearly the projection (in Spanish) at Geochicas.
Both Zeit Online too Geochicas used OpenStreetMap information to compare the number of streets named for men too women. If y'all desire to practise a similar map yourself too so y'all could occupation Overpass Turbo to explore street names on OpenStreetMap.
If y'all run a inquiry like:
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