Episode #7 - The gender gap in Europe’s street names

In 30 of Europe's biggest cities, streets named after women make up only 9% of the streets dedicated to individuals. The imbalance has started to narrow in some places, but progress is too slow.

This is one of the main results of Mapping Diversity, our latest large-scale analysis which explored who are the people to which our streets are named after.

In episode 7 of Uncharted Europe, you’ll hear from Lorenzo Ferrari, data journalist at OBC Transeuropa and coordinator of the investigation, Petra Dvořáková, journalist at Deník Referendum, and Kelly Kiki, data journalist at the Incubator for Media Education and Development.

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How non-eurozone EU countries fight inflation

Inflation is a major headache for every government, but the situation is worse in EU member states outside the eurozone. We took a look at how these countries have tried to tackle inflation, what they have done to protect their citizens – and what has gone wrong.

The EU doesn't know how many women are killed by gender-based violence

Between 800 and 1,600 a year, but there is no standard definition or comparable data between countries. A directive proposed a year ago makes it compulsory to collect this information across the European Union.

Femicide and Covid-19: an epidemic of violence against women

An exclusive data analysis reveals another dark side to the pandemic: a marked increase in murders of women and violence against women at the hands of domestic partners.

Italy is stuck in a European brain drain

Thirteen of Italy's twenty-one regions are not only in demographic decline, they are also struggling to get the remaining young people through third-level education. But Italy is not the only European country struggling.

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