Gendered Laws
This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended W...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/514981576015899984/Gendered-Laws http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33051 |
| Summary: | This paper offers for the first time a
global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it
affects women's economic opportunity and charts the
evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the
World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law
database, the paper documents large and persistent gender
inequalities, especially with regard to equal pay and
treatment of parenthood. The paper finds positive
associations between improvements in the law and several
labor market outcomes, and establishes a small, but over
time increasing, causal impact of more equal laws on higher
female labor force participation. |
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