Variable: Women's Economic Rights

QoG Code: (ciri_wecon)


Dataset: The CIRIGHTS Data project

Description:

Women’s economic rights include a number of internationally recognized rights. These rights
include:

In measuring women’s economic rights the authors are primarily interested in two things: 1) the extensiveness of laws pertaining to women’s economic rights; 2) government practices towards
women or how effectively the government enforces the laws.

Scoring Scheme:
Regarding the economic equality of women:
(0) There are no economic rights for women under law and systematic discrimination based on sex
may be built into the law. The government tolerates a high level of discrimination against women.
(1) There are some economic rights for women under law; however, in practice, the government
does not enforce the laws effectively or enforcement of laws is weak. The government tolerates a
moderate level of discrimination against women.
(2) There are some economic rights for women under law. In practice, the government does enforce
these laws effectively. However, the government still tolerates a low level of discrimination against
women.
(3) All or nearly all of women's economic rights are guaranteed by law. In practice, the government
fully and vigorously enforces these laws. The government tolerates no or almost no discrimination
against women.

Type of variable: Categorical

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Last updated by source: 2023-08-27


Categories:

Judicial Gender Equality


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OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 193
Standard time-series: 201
OECD cross-section: 37
OECD time-series: 38


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