India scores 74.4 in World Bank index on working women

Subject : International Relations

Section : International reports

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Recently, the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law Report 2023 has been released, which covers 190 countries.
Significantly the UAE scored 82.5 out of 100 possible points across 35 sub indicators divided into eight major areas of the report: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension.
India scored 74.4 out of possible 100, higher than the 63.7 average for the South Asian region, though lower than Nepal which had the region’s highest score of 80.6.
In 2022, the global average score on the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law was 77.1 and this year it is 77 per cent.

World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law Report 2023

World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2023 assesses 190 countries’ laws and regulations in eight areas related to women’s economic participation—mobility, workplace, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, assets, and pensions.
World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2023 is the ninth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies.
It identifies barriers to women’s economic participation and encourages reform of discriminatory laws.
The data—which are current through Oct 1, 2022—offer objective and measurable benchmarks for global progress toward legal gender equality.
Today, just 14 countries—all high-income economies—have laws that give women the same rights as men.

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