CHART: WBL #2 - law marimekko

[lpicci96]

WBL law chart #2

Marimekko chart showing whether countries have passed laws on certain issues

The main purpose of this chart/story is to give a more granular view of which countries have/have not passed legislation that affects equity. Using the laws that generate the WBL indices. Additionally we show how many women are affected by these laws

[lpicci96]

@MIveson92 see the chart below and link here: https://public.flourish.studio/story/1842434/ The story will show the categories - workplace, pay, and entrepreneurship - which are in the WBL report. The laws are those used to calculate the score for the specific category

[MIveson92]

@lpicci96 a few thoughts: can we change the header to "In X% of countries, women face barriers to entering or safely staying in the workforce". because we say elsewhere that no where are men and women fully equal, I'd like to be more descriptive when we're talking about specific issues

I think what makes this hard to read is that I go to each line wondering what the answer is (yes/no), and as it stands, the chart doesn't immediately answer that question. I think we should either try to put yes/no at the left hand side of each corresponding bar, or rephrame the question to be delcarative, i.e. in X countries, women can't get a job in the same way as a man.

also - just a reminder that the new WBL report is out tomorrow, which may include updates to this data. that hopefully isn't a problem as I assume they will just update existing data pipelines.

[lpicci96]

Thanks for your feedback @MIveson92 . Makes sense to change the placing of the legend to the left.

As for adding data to the header (X% of countries...) I'm weary of doing this because we have to hard code it i.e. the number cannot be dynamic, so when the data change, we have to manually change it and so is likely to become outdated without us knowing. But we can add it as dynamic text in the narrative

After passing this chart around to other colleagues they did say the chart isn't immediately clear, but also once they spent time with it, it added a lot of value. So I am inclined to keep it even if it isn't immediately clear. There will be other charts that are very clear , and the narrative around the chart will also make it easier to read

[MIveson92]

Ok, great! That makes sense on the percentage. But can we still rephrase slightly - like "in many countries, women's work is not valued equal to men's". This still helps distinguish what exactly we're talking about.