Legal Wing

Women, Business and the Law 2020

◾️Its sixth edition in a series, has been released.

◾️What? Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group
project collecting unique data on the laws and regulations that restrict
women’s economic opportunities (in 190 countries).
◾️Women, Business and the Law Index: It is composed by eight
indicators namely: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood,
Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension.
◾️Performance of countries: No economy in ‘East Asia and the Pacific’,
‘Europe and Central Asia’, or ‘Latin America and the Caribbean’ were
among top reformers, the report claimed.
◾️Only eight economies scored a perfect 100 —Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, France, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, and Sweden.
◾️These countries have ensured equal legal standing to men and
women on all the eight indicators of the index.
◾️The global average was 75.2 — a slight increase from 73.9 in the
previous index released in 2017.
India is placed 117th among 190 countries.
◾️ It scored 74.4 which is way below least developed countries like
Rwanda and Lesotho.