Data Sketch – Comparing Gender of Children in China
Why I chose this topic.
I chose this topic because I am an adopted female from China.
Movement of Cubes (Males).
There are two different patterns of movement for the cubes (males). The first one is in the foreground. It is the cubes in vertical diagonal lines and them connecting to each other before disappearing. The second is in the mid ground. The cubes are moving in horizontal lines but are also sawed (saw meaning that they are cut up, not directly next to each other). Even though they are moving horizontally, some of these cubes disappear when travelling directly in the center of the outlining sphere in the background.
Movement of Spheres (Females)
There are two different types of spheres in this video. One is the main sphere all the way in the background. The other spheres are able to move in the foreground, mid ground, and background. These spheres, like the cubes in the mid ground, are sawed too but moving vertically. These are the only object that can move freely throughout the different layers. Meaning Behind this Design
I made sure that there are more cubes (males) than spheres (females). The cubes in the foreground show the closeness of the community wanting sons and how they are the major gender among children.
The spheres that can move between different levels show that they are needed throughout all aspects. If a generation wants to continue they need females, whether they are preferred or not.
The cubes in the mid ground show how even if there is more of a desire for a son, son's are affected by having less females to date and possibly reproduce with. These spheres are less close together. If there are less females, then there will be fewer daughters and sons overall. No one gender is immune and not affected.
The huge sphere in the background represents as a reminder that all these sons and daughters have to come from some egg. That in order to continue the future, we not only need males, but females too.
Interaction & Meaning
In the bottom left of the video is the word "Sons" and in the bottom right is the word "Daughters". Whenever I clicked on them they disappeared and would reappear. This is supposed to show the affect of having to chose one or the other but also that you can not only have everyone have only sons or daughters. If everyone has the same gender child then it is hard to continue to the next generation.
Music
I figured out how to make music and sound effect along with video editing in max 8. But none of the provided songs seemed to fit this topic.
History of why males were preferred.
Due to the huge population, which continued to grow, the one child policy was made in 1979. Males earned money and worked while females had to care for the elderly, young, and sometimes educate the young. The majority of people wanted males since the females unique role of taking care of the elderly would be taking care of their husbands parents.
What does it mean & Why?
When there are more females, there are more males. As time goes on there are fewer and fewer females, resulting in fewer males. I added a square in the group on the left to show that even though the number of females are decreasing, there are still more males, even as the population of females declined.
Rough Draft Idea
On the right, I made the orange square and the rest after off balance to show how males were effected. Even though couples may want a male, it was harder to do so. As there were fewer females, Chinese males had and are still having little choice to female partners. Due to this I put a circle in the right group.
Credits
Data is from https://wid.world/data/
History
https://www.crossingbordersnk.org/chinas-one-child-policy?gclid=CjwKCAjwkdL6BRAREiwA-kiczHQrx6TaZ5QF0FoNuz5Ppj1KDqm5z0Tj-3MV7q6IEj9w9y6V-XIPHRoCdJ4QAvD_BwE https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/asia/china-women-discrimination.html
