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Q1 Are streets names in Paris, Vienna, London, and New York gender-biased? Despite
Paris and New York being centers of progressive culture, they still fail to commemorate men
and women in equal measure. Sadly, what is an historically legacy will stay with us in the
future, if these two cities do not change their course. As men’s and women’s aspiration con-
verge, street naming should reflect that. More specifically, in Paris, 4% of today’s streets are
named after women, and these streets are clustered in the 1
st
arrondissement, the very center
of Paris (
Fig 2a
), and that proportion used to be only 1% prior to 1980 (
Fig 3a
). In the 1880s, in
Vienna (
Fig 3a
), the proportion of streets named after females was below 5%, reaching a peak
of 10% in 1920-1940s. In 1980s, more and more streets started being named and renamed after
female figures, resulting into a proportion of female streets as high as 41% in 2000s and 54% in
2010s. These streets are predominantly clustered in the 22
nd
district (Donaustadt), in the east
side of the city (
Fig 2a
). In London, the proportion of female steets reached its highest propor-
tion of 40% around the 1980s (
Fig 3a
), and are predominantly clustered in the South West
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