An economy is stronger when all citizens can contribute equally. By revealing how laws affect women’s economic participation, Women, Business and the Law 2023 presents persuasive evidence that an equal sharing of legal rights and freedoms is also instrumental for better economic performance. This year’s study delivers some promising news. Despite multiple overlapping global crises, most regions are advancing toward legal gender equality across all areas measured. To guide in the pursuit of gender equality, Women, Business and the Law 2023 offers some lessons from the past. An impressive analysis of five decades of reforms shows where and how countries have adopted more than 2,000 laws to enhance legal gender parity. However, at this pace, it will take another 50 years to close the legal gender gap. By using the findings of the new Women, Business and the Law 2023 study, this event will discuss what can be done to improve women’s economic opportunities and empower them at work and at home. Share your thoughts and questions in advance here:
💬 Simultaneous interpretation available in French Spanish
🗣️ Speakers
– Mamta Murthi, Vice President, Human Development, World Bank
– Tea Trumbic, Women, Business and the Law project Program Manager, World Bank
– Hana Brixi, Global Director, Gender Group, World Bank
– Sara Saeed Khurram, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sehat Kahani, Pakistan
– Gary Barker, CEO and co-founder of Promundo-US
– Ratna Sahay, Senior Advisor on Gender in the Office of the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund @imf
– Norman Loayza, Director of the Global Indicators Group, World Bank
– Isabel Santagostino Recavarren, Private Sector Development Specialist, Co-author of the Women, Business and the Law report, World Bank
– Fatou Diane Gueye, Minister of Women, Family, and Child Protection, Senegal
– Jean Sansan Kambile, Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Côte d’Ivoire
-Moderator: Antonio Zappulla, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
📝 Agenda
00:00 Welcome
01:17 Opening remarks, by Mamta Murthi, Vice President, Human Development, World Bank
06:24 Key findings of the Women, Business and the Law 2023 Report
18:19 Conversation with policymakers on making gender reforms happen
39:26 Call to gender equality, by Hana Brixi, Global Director, Gender Group, World Bank
43:38 Panel discussion on ways to accelerate gender equality
1:05:46 Closing remarks
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