Women, Business and the Law, 2012
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_imagewbl-pngthumbrightremoving-barriers-to-economic-inclusion"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Removing barriers to Economic Inclusion</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_list-of-countries"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">List of Countries</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_team-members"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Team Members</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_see-also"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_references"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_external-links"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <h1 id="w_imagewbl-pngthumbrightremoving-barriers-to-economic-inclusion">Removing barriers to Economic Inclusion<u> </u></h1> <p id="w_imagewbl-pngthumbrightremoving-barriers-to-economic-inclusion"> ![](https://www.wikigender.org/wp-content/uploads/files/"Wbl.png) </p>Did you know that in "Gender a woman’s husband can prevent her from getting a job by informing her employers of his opposition and in "Gender husbands have the exclusive right to administer marital property, which includes assets and earnings earned by the wife unless she can prove their independent origin? These and other barriers stacked up against women’s labor force participation and entrepreneurship around the world are cataloged in the <b>newly released 2012 <i>Women, Business and the Law </i>Report</b>, Removing barriers to economic inclusion, published by the "World Group. <i>Women, Business and the Law</i> focuses on setting out, in an objective fashion, legal differentiations on the basis of gender in 141 economies around the world, covering 6 topics: <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/data/exploretopics/accessing-institutions">accessing institutions</a>, <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/data/exploretopics/using-property">using property</a>, <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/data/exploretopics/getting-a-job">getting a job</a>, <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/data/exploretopics/providing-incentives-to-work">providing incentives to work</a>, <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/data/exploretopics/building-credit">building credit</a>, and <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/data/exploretopics/going-to-court">going to court</a>. The data are readily available on <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/">the website</a>, where users can browse by topic or by country and are also provided with links to primary legal resources used in the research. A section on reforms also points out which countries have moved closer to gender equality, or enhanced opportunities for women through legal reform over the course of the past year and a half. For example "Gender , a leading reformer, instilled equal inheritance rights for men and women in its new constitution. "Gender passed a new Employment Contracts Act which prohibits the dismissal of pregnant women, and guarantees a return to the same position after maternity or paternity leave. This resource has strong potential to be used as a tool for advocacy by civil society organizations aiming to empower women because it provides references relative to other countries, and statutory texts from which sample language can be taken. The findings are also primed for use in economic research to determine correlations between legal regimes and economic and social outcomes. In addition, because reforms are highlighted and the information will be updated every two years, the resource will be valuable in tracking how WBL indicators correspond with provisions in the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW). For example, Article 11.1c of CEDAW provides for the free choice of profession and employment which corresponds to questions in <i>Women Business and the Law </i>such as: can women work in the same industries as men? And can a woman get a job or pursue a trade or profession in the same way as a man? Another example is Article 9 of CEDAW which provides for equal rights with respect to nationality. <i>Women Business and the Law </i>tracks the ability of women to convey citizenship to their children and to non-national spouses. The <i>Women Business and the Law</i> team welcomes feedback and corrections to its report and can be contacted through <a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/">the website</a>.<a href="http://wbl.worldbank.org/">The World Bank website</a> <b>Yasmin Bin-Humam</b> <b>Sarah Iqbal <b>Khrystyna Kushnir</b> <b>Thibault Meilland</b> <b>Rita Ramalho</b> <b>Paula Tavares</b> |