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...
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2019/12/17
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS9080
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2019/12/17
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Gendered Laws
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law
Citation
Hyland,Marie Caitriona; Djankov,Simeon; Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou.
Gendered Laws (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9080 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/514981576015899984