This is a dashboard to analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) data that is a biennial survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.

The General Social Survey (GSS) is a biennial survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. The survey has been conducted since 1972 and is designed to gather data on social trends and attitudes in the United States. The GSS collects information on a wide range of topics, including race relations, gender roles, politics, and religion. The data is collected through face-to-face interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States.

The gss_clean dataframe provided in this lab contains data from the GSS, including information on respondents' sex, education, region, age, income, job prestige, and attitudes towards gender roles. The data has been cleaned and processed for analysis, and includes a weight variable to adjust for sampling bias. This dataset provides a valuable source of information for researchers and policymakers interested in understanding social trends in the United States.

According to the Global Gender Gap Report by World Economic Forum in 2022, "Gender parity is not recovering, and It will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap." The gender wage gap is a well-documented phenomenon that refers to the difference in earnings between men and women for the same role and responsibilities. The most salient factors contributing to gender-based wealth inequity are gender pay gaps, unequal career progression trajectories, gender gaps in financial literacy, and life events that typically influence women's participation in paid work and their ability to contribute to wealth accumulation. Childcare-related life events have the greatest impact on gender wealth equity, with women accumulating only 74% of the wealth of men on average after a 40-year career in comparable roles if they have a child to care for.

Despite high levels of female representation in certain industries, there remains a gender gap in leadership roles. In the Personal Services and well-being industry, for instance, women account for 62% of the total workforce but only 45% of leadership positions.

Is the gender wage gap due to underperformance in leadership? As an analyst, I was motivated to investigate the relationship between political leadership positions and their potential impact on a country's economy, given that these positions represent the highest level of achievement in this domain.

The global average share of women in parliament rose to 22.9%, with Mexico (50%), Nicaragua (50.6%), and Rwanda (61.3%) having the highest shares of women in parliament. It is interesting that the countries Nicaragua and Rwanda recorded the highest economic growth as a country over the past decade and reached the pinnacle last year with 17.70 and 20.06 respectively in their quarterly GDP Growth Rate.

Sources: weforum , American Lifetime wage gap, tradingeconomics