Women, Business and the Law 2020, the sixth edition in a series, has been released.
Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group project collecting unique data on the laws and regulations that restrict women’s economic opportunities.
The index analyzes laws and regulations affecting women’s economic inclusion in 190 economies.
It is composed by eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law.
The indicators are Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension.
No economy in ‘East Asia and the Pacific’, ‘Europe and Central Asia’, or ‘Latin America and the Caribbean’ were among top reformers.
Only eight economies scored a perfect 100 —Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, and Sweden.
Those countries have ensured equal legal standing to men and women on all the eight indicators of the index.