The case discusses the inclusion of women in today’s political sphere. This is resulting from the agitation in women empowerment and gender equality and that for a change to be brought about, women are to be actively involved in governance.
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Data source: Data was extracted from here (a dataset bank)
Analytic tool: PowerBI
The analysis is done by kavvyagudavalli
The following, are metrics used in this case study;
- Statistics extracted from the data story
- Color choices
- Visualization choices
- Insights drawn
- Conclusion
Statistics extracted from the data story
After careful analysis of the data story is was discovered that
- America has the highest percentage of women in power closely followed by Europe with 29.9% and Africa coming last with 19.6 %.
- 20-40% of women in most countries have seats in the national parliament or house of representatives.
- On a global scale, women occupy only 24.5% of parliament seat
- Rwanda has 61.25% of women in the lower house and 38.5% in the lower chamber.
- About 80 countries in the world have mandated a gender quota example of such are Nepal(33%), Italy(7-12%)
- The UAE has mandated a 50% women’s representation in the FNC.
- Cuba is represented by 52.3% women without any reservations
- In countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar positions given by selections and not by-election, however, the woman percentage in governance is around 19.9%
Color choices
The color used in this data story isn’t a defined color, and it is so because the visuals represented contain elements that may not be particularly separated by any defined color.
Visualization choices
The visuals used include; donut chart, vertical bar charts, table, and stock images. The Pie chart represented continents and has value showing the percentage of women’s inclusion in governance.
Bar chart representing the number of countries on the Y-axis and the percentage of women in parliament on the X-axis. The distinguishing factor of the bar charts being the bins(4) used to represent income levels of women of the countries.
Table chart showing a quick representation of countries, region, level of income, and percentage of women inclusion.
Icon used
A feminist icon was used on the top left pane a graphic display of people in conversion was used to direct readers on the story flow.
Insights Drawn from the Dataset
From the visualization, a peculiar trend is observed. An increase in the level of income of the women leads to more inclusion in the seat of parliaments and the majority of women with high income are from the Americas.
Conclusion
There is women’s inclusion in governance across the countries studied although, the percentages vary from country to country due to factors such as Income level and country laws on women.
What I would have done differently
- Donut charts are best displayed with not more than 3 features because they are meant to be self-explanatory by looking at the length of the color bars. If I were to carry out the study, I would have used a bar chart instead that would show percentages as the values and I would represent it as a top 5 and bottom 5 countries.
- Background colors are too basic and not visually interesting. I would add more colors to further drive home my point.
- I would use a heat map to show the countries’ inclusiveness.
