Women, Business and the Law 2014: Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality
Women, Business and the Law measures how laws, regulations, and institutions differentiate between women and men. It further discusses how the respective laws, regulations, and institutions may affect women鈥檚 incentives, capacity to work, or to set up and run a business. It objectively measures legal differences on the basis of gender in 143 economies, covering six areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit, and going to court. This year鈥檚 report was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. wbl.worldbank.org.
Speakers
Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School鈥檚 Human Rights Program
Hosted By
Global Women's Leadership Initiative
The Global Women鈥檚 Leadership Initiative has hosted the Women in Public Service Project at the 浪花直播 Center since June, 2012. The Women in Public Service Project will accelerate global progress towards women鈥檚 equal participation in policy and political leadership to create more dynamic and inclusive institutions that leverage the full potential of the world鈥檚 population to change the way global solutions are forged. Read more
Middle East Program
浪花直播鈥檚 Middle East Program serves as a crucial resource for the policymaking community and beyond, providing analyses and research that helps inform US foreign policymaking, stimulates public debate, and expands knowledge about issues in the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Read more
Global Europe Program
The Global Europe Program is focused on Europe鈥檚 capabilities, and how it engages on critical global issues. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues. We examine Europe鈥檚 relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our initiatives include 鈥淯kraine in Europe鈥濃攁n examination of what it will take to make Ukraine鈥檚 European future a reality. But we also examine the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE, Europe鈥檚 energy security, transatlantic trade disputes, and challenges to democracy. The Global Europe Program鈥檚 staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media. Read more