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https://github.com/soodoku/working_women_on_tv
Employment Status of Female Characters on Indian Television Soaps
https://github.com/soodoku/working_women_on_tv
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Employment Status of Female Characters on Indian Television Soaps
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/soodoku/working_women_on_tv
- Owner: soodoku
- Created: 2015-11-20T21:59:49.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-11-23T20:41:48.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-11T12:15:34.500Z (27 days ago)
- Topics: female-characters, indian-television-soaps
- Language: R
- Homepage:
- Size: 3.91 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
### Working Women on Indian TV
Tallying the number of fictional female characters who work on Indian television evening soaps. We find that 36.6% of the female characters of working age work. The proportion varies considerably across shows, spanning 0 and 1. The standard deviation is .30.
#### Data
The [data](data/working_women_on_tv) were collected between September and November, 2015. For now, we have data on 172 characters covering 20 shows. If you see an inconsistency in the data, or have a suggestion, or some data that you would like to contribute to the project, please create a pull request.
#### Analysis, Write-up, And Figures
[Script](scripts/tv_women.R)
#### Authors
Asha Sood and Gaurav Sood
#### License
Scripts, figures, and writing are released under [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).