Format:
1 Online-Ressource (131 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781464819452
Series Statement:
Women, Business and the Law Series
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Intro -- Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Main Messages -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1 The State of Women's Legal Rights -- Annex 1A Women, Business and the Law Indicator Scores -- Annex 1B Summaries of Reforms -- Chapter 2 Data Trends from Five Decades of Reform -- Appendix A Data Notes -- Appendix B Economy Data -- Boxes -- Box 1.1 About women, business and the law -- Box 1.2 How women, business and the law data and findings can be used to promote policy reform -- Box 1.3 Spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa -- Box 1.5 Update on measuring the law in practice -- Box 1.4 Women's rights and constraints related to the water sector -- Box 2.1 Recent evidence linking women, business and the law data to beneficial socioeconomic outcome -- Box 2.2 Drivers, barriers, and mechanisms of reforms: Lessons from case studies -- Box A.1 Assumptions used to ensure comparability -- Maps -- Map 1 The global average Women, Business and the Law score is 77.1 -- Map 1A.1 Women, Business and the Law overall scores -- Map 1A.2 Women, Business and the Law mobility indicator scores -- Map 1A.3 Women, Business and the Law workplace indicator scores -- Map 1A.4 Women, Business and the Law pay indicator scores -- Map 1A.5 Women, Business and the Law marriage indicator scores -- Map 1A.6 Women, Business and the Law parenthood indicator scores -- Map 1A.7 Women, Business and the Law entrepreneurship indicator scores -- Map 1A.8 Women, Business and the Law assets indicator scores -- Map 1A.9 Women, Business and the Law pension indicator scores -- Figures -- Figure ES.1 Eight women, business and the law indicators measure legal differences between men and women at different stages of their working life -- Figure ES.2 The largest gaps are in the Middle East and North Africa and in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Figure ES.3 In 2021-22, 18 economies enacted reforms across all women, business and the law indicators -- Figure ES.4 Progress toward gender-equal laws has been uneven across time and regions -- Figure ES.5 Historically more unequal areas have reformed faster over time -- Figure ES.6 Expanding the scope of the women, business and the law index -- Figure 1.1 More than 90 million women of working age have gained legal equality in the last decade -- Figure B1.1.1 The eight women, business and the law indicators -- Figure 1.2 Score gaps of more than 50 points exist across all income groups -- Figure 1.3 The largest gaps are in the Middle East and North Africa and in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Figure 1.4 Over the last five years, regions scoring the lowest improved the most -- Figure 1.5 Despite improvements in the past five years, pay and parenthood still have the lowest scores -- Figure 1.6 Sub-Saharan African and lower-middle-income economies reformed the most -- Figure 1.7 In 2021-22, 18 economies enacted reforms across all women, business and the law in indicators -- Figure 1.8 Expanding the scope of the women, business and the law index -- Figure B2.1.1 More gender-equal laws have tangible benefits for women -- Figure 2.1 More than 2,000 reforms have been implemented since 1970, making impressive progress toward moew gender-equal laws -- Figure 2.2 Progress toward gender-equal laws has been uneven across time and regions -- Figure 2.3 Implementing gender reform is not dependent on income level -- Figure 2.4 Workplace has seen the most and mobility the least number of reforms across all eight indicators -- Figure 2.5 Workplace reforms spiked in the 1990s and 2000s -- Figure 2.6 Economies with less gender-equal laws in 1970 are catching up -- Figure 2.7 The case study of indonesia shows that the road to gender equality is not always a straight line
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Figure 2.8 Historically more unequal areas have reformed faster over time -- Figure A.1 The eight women, business and the law indicators -- Figure A.2 Sample scoring on the women, business and the law index: Ecuador -- Tables -- Table ES.1 Eighteen economies improved their women, business and the law 2023 score -- Table B1.1.1 Methodological strengths and limitations of the women, business and the law index -- Table 1.1 Women, business and the law 2023 score -- Table 1.2 In 2021-22, economies implemented the highest number of reforms to improve gender equality in the Pay indicator -- Table 1.3 Number of economies with room to reform laws guaranteeing a woman's freedom of movement -- Table 1.4 Number of economies with room to reform laws protecting women in the workplace -- Table 1.5 Number of economies with room to reform laws addressing the gender pay gap -- Table 1.6 Sixty-five economies prohibit women from performing certain tasks -- Table 1.7 Number of economies with room to reform laws related to marriage and divorce -- Table 1.8 Number of economies with room to reform laws incentivizing a woman to work after having children -- Table 1.9 Number of economies with room to reform barriers to women's entrepreneurship -- Table 1.10 Number of economies with room to reform laws granting women equal rights to property and inheritance -- Table 1.11 Number of economies with room to reform laws ensuring a woman's economic security in old age -- Table B1.5.1 Examples of process questions for the pay indicator -- Table B1.5.2 Examples of policies that facilitate effective implementation of laws -- Table B1.5.3 New format of the expert opinion component -- Table 2.1 Economies that have historically lagged behind in the women, business and the law index have been catching up, 1970-2022
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Table 2.2 Lower-scoring economies have been catching up within all eight of the women, business and law indicators, 1970-2022 -- Table A.1 Women, business and the law indicators -- Table A.2 Methodological strengths and limitations of the Women, Business and the Law index -- Table B.1 Economy-level indicator data
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe World Bank, World Women, Business and the Law 2023 Liverpool : World Bank Publications,c2023 ISBN 9781464819445
Language:
English
