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WOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW 2019 A DECADE OF REFORM
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WOMEN,
BUSINESS ANDTHE LAW 2019
A DECADE OF REFORM
MEASURING GENDER EQUALITY IN THE LAW
2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Over the last ten years, Women, Business and the Law has
collected unique data on the laws and regulations that constrain
women’s entrepreneurship and employment.
2019
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR EQUALITY
• Outcomes related to
women’s economic
empowerment
• Economic literature that
supports each indicator
• International legal
framework on women’s
human rights
LAWS AFFECT WOMEN THROUGHOUT THEIR
WORKING LIVES
Going Places
Starting a Job Running a Business Getting a Pension
Getting Paid
Getting Married
Having Children Managing Assets
Source: Women, Business and the Law team.
Constraints on freedom of movement
Laws affecting women’s decisions to work
Laws and regulations affecting women’s pay
Legal constraints related to marriage
Laws affecting women’s work after having children
Constraints to starting and running businesses
Gender differences in property and inheritance
Laws affecting the size of a woman’s pension
35 SCORED DATA POINTS
Source: Women, Business and the Law team.
BoliviaGoing Places: 100
Starting a Job: 75
Getting Paid: 50
Getting Married: 100
Having Children: 60
Running a Business: 100
Managing Assets: 100
Getting a Pension: 75
HOW THE SCORING WORKS
82.50
Source: Women, Business and the Law database.
KEY FINDINGS
TEN YEARS OF PROGRESS
131ECONOMIES
MADE REFORMS
TOWARD
GENDER
EQUALITY
EVERY REGION INCREASED IN AVERAGE SCORE
Source: Women, Business and the Law database.
89.96
80.13
75.40
70.06
64.80 64.04
50
44.51
93.54
84.70
79.09
74.7170.73 69.63
58.36
47.37
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
OECD highincome
Europe & CentralAsia
Latin America &Caribbean
Global average East Asia &Pacific
Sub-SaharanAfrica
South Asia Middle East &North Africa
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WBL 2009 WBL 2018
STARTING A JOB HAD THE MOST REFORMS
Source: Women, Business and the Law database.
60
58
57
33
29
25
9
4
Starting a Job
Getting Married
Having Children
Getting Paid
Getting a Pension
Running a Business
Going Places
Managing Assets
35 ECONOMIES BANNED SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT
WORK
Source: Women, Business and the Law database.
33 ECONOMIES INTRODUCED PATERNITY LEAVE
Region Economies that introduced paid paternity leave
East Asia & Pacific Hong Kong SAR, China; Lao PDR; Myanmar; Samoa;
Singapore; Timor-Leste; Vietnam
Europe & Central
Asia
Albania; Bulgaria; Moldova; North Macedonia; Kosovo;
Turkey
Latin America &
Caribbean
Bolivia; El Salvador; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru
Middle East & North
Africa
Iran, Islamic Rep.
OECD high income Australia; Ireland; Italy; Korea, Rep.; Luxembourg;
Netherlands; Poland
South Asia Bhutan; Maldives
Sub-Saharan Africa Equatorial Guinea; Gambia, The; Mauritius; Seychelles
Source: Women, Business and the Law database.
CLOSING THE LEGAL GENDER GAP
WBL 2018WBL 2009
70.06 74.71
Average Global Score
Reforms led to a 4.65 point increase in the average global
score over the last ten years.
Source: Women, Business and the Law database.
INCREASING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
With greater equality of opportunity, more women work, and where they do
work, they are paid better.
#WomenBizLaw
#Get2Equal
