Maven Family Leave Challenge

Business case:

The business case for this project is to inform and educate readers on the current state of parental leave policies.

What was my goal?

• This project aimed to create a visualization for an online article on parental leave policies worldwide.
• The goal was to analyze a dataset of 1600 companies across 51 industries and identify patterns in their maternity and paternity leave policies.
• The insights gained from the analysis were used to create an informative and visually appealing infographic for the article.
• For this challenge, I was posing as a Data Visualization Specialist at an online business journal, so special care was taken to use simple graphs that common people could easily understand.
• The dashboard is designed like an Infographics online article.

Key insights:

• Of 1,600 companies analyzed, 96.1% offer paid maternity leave, but only 16.1% provide paid paternity leave.
• The dataset reveals that some companies offer up to 52 weeks of paid maternity leave.
• Grant Thornton is the only company in the dataset that provides up to 51 weeks of paid paternity leave.
• On average, women can expect about 10-11 weeks of maternity leaves, and men can expect around 10 days of paternity leaves.Philanthropy is one of the top industries providing maximum paid maternity and paternity leaves.

Final thoughts:

Overall, companies must review their parental leave policies and strive to offer equal and inclusive benefits for all employees, regardless of gender.