Currently, the United States is the only developed nation that has no federal policy for paid maternity leave. As a result, many new mothers in the US must rely heavily on their employers to grant them paid maternity leave and benefits. I was curious to know how many US employers granted their employees maternity leave, and to what extent compared to other countries that have federal policies mandating maternity leave.
Data is from Fairygodboss's Maternity Resource Center. I wrote an HTML web scraper in Python that loads a page from Fairygodboss, gets the data from the table, and stores it in a JSON object. The web scraper is available in the /assets folder and can be run using Jupyter Notebook.
The data is visualized using d3.js.
Special thank you to Jim Valladingham for his scroll tutorial, and to Susie Lu for her d3-annotation library.
To run, git clone the repo, cd into the project, and run http-server -c-1 -p 8000 (or any local server of your choice) to view the project at localhost:8000.
- Fairygodboss
- Among 41 nations, U.S. is the outlier when it comes to paid parental leave
- Glassdoor: 15 Companies With The Best Parental Leave Policies
- Guttmacher Institute Data Center
- Paid Parental Leave in the United States: What the data tell us about access, usage, and economic and health benefits
- Working Mothers 100 Best Companies 2017
- These 10 countries have the best parental leave policies in the world
Making a bubble chart
- https://observablehq.com/@d3/bubble-chart
- https://github.com/d3/d3-force
- https://medium.com/@sxywu/understanding-the-force-ef1237017d5
Annotating the bubble chart
Creating the scrolly story
Building a web scraper with Python and Jupyter Notebook