DSCI-532_2024_13_Juno

Members: - Riya Shaju - Gretel Tan - Karan Khubdikar - Scout McKee

Juno

This project scrutinizes the gender disparity in top-level leadership roles within Canadian corporations across multiple sectors. Leveraging gender-disaggregated data, we aim to reveal the potential influence of gender balance in decision-making roles on more effective and inclusive policies.

Ancient Romans worshipped Juno as the queen of the gods, the female counterpart to the chief of the gods, Jupiter. Since our app looks at the gender makeup of the top-level management in companies across Canada, we felt that Juno, as the CEO/COO equivalent of the Roman pantheon, would be a good representation of the female leaders we are highlighting in our data set. Furthermore, Juno's close association with women and her status as the protector of women resonates with our more aspirational goal, which is to uncover potential areas for improving inclusivity and gender equality in Canadian corporations. As a champion of women, and a prominent female leader herself, we feel that Juno is a good symbol of what we strive to achieve with this app. We have thus named our app after her.

Motivation

The Problem:

Despite progress in workplace diversity initiatives, gender disparity remains a pervasive issue at the highest levels of leadership, with men disproportionately represented compared to women.

The Solution:

Our dashboard app aims to shed light on this disparity by providing visual insights into the gender composition of top-level leadership, highlighting the need for continued efforts to achieve gender equality and foster inclusive workplaces. The dashboard allows the user to deep-dive into several aspects such as Types of Corporations, Industries, or Provinces, and also look into specific years.

How to use this app

We have deployed our app on Render, feel free to access it here and try it out for yourself! It has a simple click-based GUI, where you can explore different subsets of the data based on province, industry, and time period. You can use this app to explore different summary statistics and graphs that highlight important insights in helping us understand trends in the gender makeup of top positions in Canadian corporations.

Demo of the app

Here, you can view a GIF demonstrating how our app works:

Running the dashboard locally

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/UBC-MDS/DSCI-532_2024_13_Juno.git
cd DSCI-532_2024_13_Juno

2. Create a virtual environment and activate it

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate Juno_env

3. Set the debug=True in the app.py for the development

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(debug=True)

4. Render the dashboard locally

   Note: Please go to the data.py file in the src folder and update the paths by removing "../" from the file paths.

python src/app.py

5. Click on the link( http://127.0.0.1:8052/) or copy and paste it into a browser to view the dashboard

Contribute to our repo!

We would love for you to contribute to our app. Here's how to get started!

1. Fork the DSCI-532_2024_13_Juno repo on GitHub.

2. Clone your fork locally:

   https://github.com/UBC-MDS/DSCI-532_2024_13_Juno.git
   

3. Create a branch for local development:

   git checkout -b name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
   

   Now you can make your changes locally.

4. When you're done making changes, commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub:

   git add .
   git commit -m "Your detailed description of your changes."
   git push origin name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
   

5. Submit a pull request through the GitHub website.

Get in touch

Stuck in a bind? Have an idea for a useful feature, but have no idea how to implement it? We got you! Please feel free to raise an issue to let us know! Let us work together toward uncovering gender biases and empowering women :)