U.S. Short-term Paid Sick and Safe Days Data was released in August 2023. This dataset includes a variety of detailed indicators on laws and policies in U.S. states, cities, counties and the District of Columbia on earned time off for short-term personal and family members' illness and needs related to domestic violence, sexual assault and/or stalking. Measures include eligibility criteria, types of workers covered, types of needs and family members covered, duration available, job protection and protection against retaliation.
Paid Leave and Job Protection for Parents, People Who Are Sick and People Who Have Sick Family Members in the United States Data was released in June 2023. This dataset (abbreviated on maps and graphics as the US Paid Family and Medical Leave database) includes a variety of detailed indicators on paid parental leave, personal paid medical leave and paid family medical leave across 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Indicators include the length and wage replacement of paid leave, availability of job protection, and specific eligibility criteria linked to firm size, worker tenure, minimum hours, and earnings requirements.
Family Health Needs Data was released in September 2022. This dataset includes a range of detailed indicators on legislative provisions that enable workers to balance work and caregiving needs by providing paid leave to support family health needs across the life course in all 193 United Nations member countries. These provisions matter to population health, family economic security, and women’s economic opportunities. For children, the data examines everyday, serious, and disability-specific health needs. For adults, the data captures a wide range of family relationships, including spouses, partners, parents, adult children, siblings, parents-in-law, and grandparents.
Gender Equality in the Economy Data was released in February 2023 alongside the publication of Equality within Our Lifetimes. This dataset includes a range of detailed indicators on laws and policies in 193 countries that are critical to advancing gender equality in the economy. Areas addressed include: laws prohibiting gender, caregiving, and intersectional discrimination at work; laws prohibiting sexual harassment at work; implementation and enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination and sexual harassment at work; paid leave policies to support balancing work and caregiving across the life course including during infancy, childhood, adulthood, and old age; and laws that remove barriers to girls’ education. Longitudinal data is included to show how far the world has come in key areas, and how far it has to go.
Disability Data: Originally released in 2019 and updated in 2023, this dataset includes a range of policy indicators aligned with important commitments outlined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Areas addressed include: legislative guarantees to reasonable accommodation at work; legislative prohibitions of disability-based discrimination in hiring, pay, training, promotions and demotions, harassment, terminations, and prohibitions of indirect discrimination; legislative guarantees to non-discrimination and inclusion in education; and constitutional rights to non-discrimination and access to education, health, and work.
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