Women, Business And Law Index:
India’s ranked improved to 113 out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s Women, Business and Law index.
- Women, Business and Law Index to measure how laws and regulations affect women’s economic opportunity on a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 means equal legal rights for men and women.
- The report covers eight related areas: Mobility, workplace, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, assets and pension.
- The data offer objective and measurable benchmarks for evaluating global progress toward legal gender equality.
Highlights :
- It is the 10th edition of the report.
- Globally, none of the countries has a full score in the new index, indicating that women did not enjoy equal rights in any of the countries.
- India’s ranking improved to 113 out of 190 countries.
- Indian women enjoyed 60% of the legal rights given to men as per the new report, lower than the global average of 64.2%.
