Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality
In the past 50 years women's legal status has improved all over the world. But many laws still make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic life whether by getting jobs or starting businesses. Discriminatory rules bar women fro...
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okr-10986-205282021-04-23T14:03:56Z Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality World Bank International Finance Corporation ACCESS TO JUSTICE ADOLESCENT GIRLS AGRICULTURE AUTONOMY CAREER ADVANCEMENT CITIES CIVIL CODES CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS COURT CRIMINAL CRIMINAL LAW CUSTOMARY LAW DISCRIMINATION DISMISSAL DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DOMICILE ECONOMICS EQUAL REMUNERATION EQUAL RIGHTS EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY EQUIPMENT FAMILIES FAMILY LAW FAMILY PROPERTY FAMILY PROTECTION FAMILY PROTECTION LAW FATHERS FEMALE FEMALE EMPLOYEES FEMALE EMPLOYMENT FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS FEMALE LABOR FEMALE LABOR FORCE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION FEMALE POPULATION GENDER GENDER EQUALITY GENDER IMBALANCES GENDER NEUTRAL GENDER PARITY GENDER QUOTAS HARASSMENT HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS HOME HUSBAND HUSBANDS IDENTITY INCOMES INEQUALITY INFORMAL SECTOR INHERITANCE INHERITANCE RIGHTS INHERITANCES INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS JUDGE JUDGES JUSTICES LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR LAW LABOR MARKET LAND OWNERSHIP LAWS LEGAL CHANGES LEGAL REFORM LEGAL STATUS LEGISLATION MARITAL PROPERTY MARITAL STATUS MARRIED COUPLE MARRIED MEN MARRIED WOMAN MATERNITY LEAVE MATERNITY LEAVES MORAL CONDUCT MOTHER MOTHERS NORMS PARTICIPATION BY WOMEN PHYSICAL INTEGRITY POWER PREGNANT WOMEN PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPORTION OF WOMEN REMUNERATION FOR WOMEN REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY RESIDENCE SOCIETY UNMARRIED WOMEN VILLAGES WIFE WILL WIVES WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS WOMEN JUDGES In the past 50 years women's legal status has improved all over the world. But many laws still make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic life whether by getting jobs or starting businesses. Discriminatory rules bar women from certain jobs, restrict access to capital for women-owned firms and limit women's capacity to make legal decisions. Gender differences in laws affect both developing and developed economies, and women in all regions. Women, business, and the law measures restrictions on women s employment and entrepreneurship as well as incentives for women s employment in 143 economies. Women, business, and the law and the World Bank's global financial inclusion global findings database show that in economies with a default full community of property regime, there are on average 10 percentage points more female owned accounts at formal financial institutions than in economies with a default separation of property regime. This report has shown that although much progress has been made in recent decades in gradually dismantling many of the legal restrictions which have hampered women from more fully contributing to national prosperity, there is a large unfinished agenda of reform. Gender equality is important not only for fairness and equity, but also for economic efficiency and is at the center of creating a more prosperous world. 2014-11-12T23:21:33Z 2014-11-12T23:21:33Z 2013 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20351561/women-business-law-2014-removing-restrictions-enhance-gender-equality-vol-2-2-main-report 9-781-4729-0643-4 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20528 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ London: Bloomsbury Publications & Research :: Publication |
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ACCESS TO JUSTICE ADOLESCENT GIRLS AGRICULTURE AUTONOMY CAREER ADVANCEMENT CITIES CIVIL CODES CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS COURT CRIMINAL CRIMINAL LAW CUSTOMARY LAW DISCRIMINATION DISMISSAL DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DOMICILE ECONOMICS EQUAL REMUNERATION EQUAL RIGHTS EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY EQUIPMENT FAMILIES FAMILY LAW FAMILY PROPERTY FAMILY PROTECTION FAMILY PROTECTION LAW FATHERS FEMALE FEMALE EMPLOYEES FEMALE EMPLOYMENT FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS FEMALE LABOR FEMALE LABOR FORCE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION FEMALE POPULATION GENDER GENDER EQUALITY GENDER IMBALANCES GENDER NEUTRAL GENDER PARITY GENDER QUOTAS HARASSMENT HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS HOME HUSBAND HUSBANDS IDENTITY INCOMES INEQUALITY INFORMAL SECTOR INHERITANCE INHERITANCE RIGHTS INHERITANCES INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS JUDGE JUDGES JUSTICES LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR LAW LABOR MARKET LAND OWNERSHIP LAWS LEGAL CHANGES LEGAL REFORM LEGAL STATUS LEGISLATION MARITAL PROPERTY MARITAL STATUS MARRIED COUPLE MARRIED MEN MARRIED WOMAN MATERNITY LEAVE MATERNITY LEAVES MORAL CONDUCT MOTHER MOTHERS NORMS PARTICIPATION BY WOMEN PHYSICAL INTEGRITY POWER PREGNANT WOMEN PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPORTION OF WOMEN REMUNERATION FOR WOMEN REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY RESIDENCE SOCIETY UNMARRIED WOMEN VILLAGES WIFE WILL WIVES WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS WOMEN JUDGES |
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In the past 50 years women's legal
status has improved all over the world. But many laws still
make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic
life whether by getting jobs or starting businesses.
Discriminatory rules bar women from certain jobs, restrict
access to capital for women-owned firms and limit
women's capacity to make legal decisions. Gender
differences in laws affect both developing and developed
economies, and women in all regions. Women, business, and
the law measures restrictions on women s employment and
entrepreneurship as well as incentives for women s
employment in 143 economies. Women, business, and the law
and the World Bank's global financial inclusion global
findings database show that in economies with a default full
community of property regime, there are on average 10
percentage points more female owned accounts at formal
financial institutions than in economies with a default
separation of property regime. This report has shown that
although much progress has been made in recent decades in
gradually dismantling many of the legal restrictions which
have hampered women from more fully contributing to national
prosperity, there is a large unfinished agenda of reform.
Gender equality is important not only for fairness and
equity, but also for economic efficiency and is at the
center of creating a more prosperous world. |
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Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality |
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Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality |
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Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality |
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Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality |
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Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality |
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women, business, and the law 2014 : removing restrictions to enhance gender equality |
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London: Bloomsbury |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20351561/women-business-law-2014-removing-restrictions-enhance-gender-equality-vol-2-2-main-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20528 |
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