This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …

In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex … reform to promote gender equity and advocacy efforts, offer more promise by bringing about permanent shifts in the relative …

launch businesses. Gender inequality not only prevents women from achieving their full potential and gaining economic … identifies and analyzes investment incentives that governments can provide to businesses with the aim of promoting gender … equality. Barriers to gender equality in the workplace include supply-side barriers that make it difficult for women to find …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …