Unequal before the Law : Measuring Legal Gender Disparities across the World
Several economies have laws that treat women differently from men. This study explores the degree of such legal gender disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities to evaluate how countries perform. The average number of overall legal gender disparities across 167 economies is 17, ranging from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 44. The maximum possible legal gender disparities is 71. The measure is found to be correlated with other measures of gender inequality, implying the measure does capture gender inequality while also differing from preexisting measures of gender inequality. A high degree of legal gender disparities is found to be negatively associated with a wide range of outcomes, including years of education of women relative to men, labor force participation rates of women relative to men, proportion of women top managers, proportion of women in parliament, percentage of women that borrowed from a financial institution relative to men, and child mortality rates. Subcategories within the legal disparities measure help to uncover specific types of legal disparities across economies.
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dig-okr-10986250482021-04-23T14:04:28Z Unequal before the Law : Measuring Legal Gender Disparities across the World Iqbal, Sarah Islam, Asif Ramalho, Rita Sakhonchik, Alena gender inequality legal institutions women entrepreneurs Several economies have laws that treat women differently from men. This study explores the degree of such legal gender disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities to evaluate how countries perform. The average number of overall legal gender disparities across 167 economies is 17, ranging from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 44. The maximum possible legal gender disparities is 71. The measure is found to be correlated with other measures of gender inequality, implying the measure does capture gender inequality while also differing from preexisting measures of gender inequality. A high degree of legal gender disparities is found to be negatively associated with a wide range of outcomes, including years of education of women relative to men, labor force participation rates of women relative to men, proportion of women top managers, proportion of women in parliament, percentage of women that borrowed from a financial institution relative to men, and child mortality rates. Subcategories within the legal disparities measure help to uncover specific types of legal disparities across economies. 2016-09-12T22:16:46Z 2016-09-12T22:16:46Z 2016-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26722425/unequal-before-law-measuring-legal-gender-disparities-across-world http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25048 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7803 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Several economies have laws that treat
women differently from men. This study explores the degree
of such legal gender disparities across 167 economies around
the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure
of legal gender disparities to evaluate how countries
perform. The average number of overall legal gender
disparities across 167 economies is 17, ranging from a
minimum of 2 to a maximum of 44. The maximum possible legal
gender disparities is 71. The measure is found to be
correlated with other measures of gender inequality,
implying the measure does capture gender inequality while
also differing from preexisting measures of gender
inequality. A high degree of legal gender disparities is
found to be negatively associated with a wide range of
outcomes, including years of education of women relative to
men, labor force participation rates of women relative to
men, proportion of women top managers, proportion of women
in parliament, percentage of women that borrowed from a
financial institution relative to men, and child mortality
rates. Subcategories within the legal disparities measure
help to uncover specific types of legal disparities across economies. |
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Unequal before the Law : Measuring Legal Gender Disparities across the World |
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