Women’s Economic Rights—What’s Changed and Why Does It Matter?

When combined with women, then it is important to update our measures previous WB&L reports, the GDI data covers the period of institutional quality to reflect this reality.1 Taking from 1970 to 2018.2 Each of the variables included in the feminist criticism of objective economic indicators the GDI captures some aspect of a woman’s legal rights seriously, the index published in Economic Freedom of [...] Disparriittyy I nInddexex FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FREEDOM TO WORK This category measures the degree to which women and Freedom to Work measures the extent to which men men have the same choice about where to live and the and women have equal freedom to engage in formal same freedom to travel outside their home, both within employment, the type of employment they wish to and outside their country. [...] However, between 2010 and 2016 the global average From 1970 through 1990 (table 2.3), the countries with score for the Gender Disparity Index decreased from the 15 lowest GDI scores were predominantly African 0.90 to 0.8712, mainly as a result of the increase in the countries. [...] In five countries, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, Guinea- Bissau, and Niger, there are restrictions on a woman’s 10 THE FRASER INSTITUTE 4.0 Adjusting the Economic Freedom of the World Index for Gender Disparity The index published by the Fraser Institute in Economic Freedom of the World measures the level of economic freedom in countries around the world using 43 distinct variables rated on a scale of 0 [...] For a quarter of countries, primarily in the Middle East = Gender-Adjusted Area 2 Score and North Africa, the gender adjustment results in a TABLE 4.1 Countries with the Largest Decrease in EFW Rank after the Gender Adjustment, 2017 Unadjusted Rank in Adjusted Rank in Gender Disparity Economic Freedom.