Women, Business And The Law 2023 Report

March 6, 2023

Recently, the World Bank released the Women, Business and the Law 2023 report.
The Report relies on eight indicators to measure if women are on an equal standing with men.
- A perfect score of 100 on the Index means that women are on an equal standing with men. Only 14 countries scored a perfect 100
India scored 74.4 in the index which was higher than the 63.7 average for the South Asian region, but lower than Nepal which had the region’s highest score of 80.6.
The Index used data on the laws and regulations applicable in Mumbai.
India gets a perfect score in indicators like constraints on freedom of movement, laws affecting women’s decisions to work, and constraints related to marriage, maritime cooperation.
India lags behind when it comes to laws affecting women’s pay, laws affecting women’s work after having children, constraints on women starting and running a business, gender differences in property and inheritance, and laws affecting the size of a woman’s pension.