{"id":21244,"date":"2024-03-05T05:55:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21244"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:20:41","slug":"women-business-and-law-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/women-business-and-law-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Business and Law Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Women, Business and Law Index<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0World Bank index\u00a0measuring the enabling environment for women\u2019s economic opportunity\u00a0in\u00a0190 economies.<\/li>\n<li>The index measures\u00a0how laws and regulations affect women\u2019s economic opportunity on a scale from\u00a00 to 100, where\u00a0100 means equal legal rights for men and women.<\/li>\n<li>The report covers\u00a0eight related areas: Mobility, workplace, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, assets, and pension.<\/li>\n<li>The data offer objective and measurable\u00a0benchmarks for evaluating global progress\u00a0toward legal gender equality.<\/li>\n<li>It demonstrates the progress made while emphasising the work still to be done to ensure economic empowerment for all.<\/li>\n<li>Highlights of 2024 Index:\n<ul>\n<li>o It is the\u00a010th edition of the report.<\/li>\n<li>o Globally,\u00a0none of the countries\u00a0has a full score in the new index, indicating that women did not enjoy equal rights in any of the countries.<\/li>\n<li>o India&#8217;s ranking improved to\u00a0113 out of 190 countries.<\/li>\n<li>o Indian women enjoyed 60% of the legal rights given to men as per the new report,\u00a0lower than the global average of 64.2%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the World Bank?<\/h3>\n<p>The WB is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low and middle-income\/developing countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. It was established along with the IMF at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. The WB is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organisations owned by the WB Group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/india-ranks-113-out-of-190-countries-in-the-world-banks-legal-gender-gap-index\/articleshow\/108212920.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India ranks 113 out of 190 countries in the World Bank\u2019s legal gender gap index<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women, Business and Law Index is a World Bank index measuring the enabling environment for women\u2019s economic opportunity in 190 economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}