Around the world, women continue to experience disadvantages and barriers in access to education, jobs, income, property, and other areas, as well as infringements on their right to equality and non-discrimination based on their gender. The first step to addressing many of these issues is a legal and policy framework that supports and promotes equity, and guarantees protections from discrimination and sexual harassment.
To begin to examine this crucial issue, the WORLD Policy Analysis Center has several types of data available. We examine explicit protections of equal rights and prohibitions of discrimination based on gender, the extent to which laws in particular areas are applied differently to men and women, and policies that, while not explicitly gendered, have a different impact on males and females – for example, girls are disproportionately disadvantaged in access to education when tuition is charged.
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