Women, Business, and the Law 2024

Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th in a series of annual studies measuring the laws that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. This year, it presents two sets of data: Women, Business and the Law 1.0 and an expanded version, Women, Business and the Law 2.0. Women, Business and the Law 1.0 update its index of eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension.
Women, Business and the Law 2.0 presents a new approach to measure the implementation gap between laws— de jure—and how they function in practice—de facto. It
analyzes legal frameworks, supportive frameworks, and expert opinions on the status of women’s rights. In doing so, Women, Business and the Law 2.0 introduces two new
indicators—Safety and Childcare—and revises the ongoing indicators.
By examining laws affecting the economic decisions that women make throughout their working lives, the frameworks supporting the implementation of those laws, and
the opinions of experts on women’s outcomes, Women, Business and the Law continues to gather new evidence of the critical relationship between legal gender equality and
women’s economic empowerment. Data in Women, Business and the Law 2024 are current as of October 1, 2023.