This study uses a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 … years to test for the impact of legal reforms on employment, health, and education outcomes for women and girls. The … women's economic rights, including 28 countries that had eliminated all of the constraints monitored here. In the cross …

Using a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 years … international conventions, such as the Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), women's political … representation at the national level, mobilization of women's networks, and increasing labor force participation in sectors that …