An interactive data visualization of the gender pension gap in Austria, showing how women's pensions systematically fall below men's across the full distribution — from the median to the extremes. The visualization combines a pension distribution chart, an ISOTYPE-style count graphic, and a decile comparison (dumbbell chart), all based on WIFO microsimulation data.
Live: https://data-science.wifo.ac.at/marie-neurath
Submitted to the Marie Neurath Prize for Data Visualization 2025, awarded by the Austrian Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer Wien).
Marie Neurath (1898-1986) pioneered visual knowledge communication at Vienna's Society and Economic Museum (from 1924), collaborating with Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz. After fleeing Nazi Austria, she co-founded the ISOTYPE Institute in Britain, directing it from 1945-1971 to advance accessible information design.
The pension distribution data (data/) is derived from:
Eppel, R., Fink, M., Horvath, T., Mayrhuber, C., & Rocha-Akis, S. (2024). Simulation von Änderungen des Pensionssystems auf die Höhe der Alterseinkommen und den Gender Pension Gap in Österreich. WIFO – Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung. https://www.wifo.ac.at/publication/270945/
Visualizations were commissioned by the Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Oberösterreich (Mayrhuber, C., Grandner, L., & Schmoigl, L., 2024). https://www.wifo.ac.at/project/427208/