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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>From the World Economic Forum<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222A35">Countries Which Offer Full LEGAL PROTECTIONS to Women<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/only-14-countries-have-full-equal-rights-for-women/?utm_source=PassBlue+List&utm_campaign=f3204bf86d-RSS_PassBlue&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4795f55662-f3204bf86d-55058346"><span style="color:blue">Which
countries have full equal rights for women? Only 14 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0065F2;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/katharina-buchholz"><span style="color:blue;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Katharina
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F2F2F2"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/impact/gender-gap-accelerators-benefits-over-728000-women/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">What's
the World Economic Forum doing to </span><span style="color:#0065F2;text-decoration:none">accelerate action on Gender Inequality?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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and monitor how </span><span style="color:#F7DB5E;text-decoration:none">Gender Inequality </span><span style="color:white;text-decoration:none">is affecting economies, industries and global issues</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:white;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">March 2023 - There are only 14 countries in the world which offer full legal protections to women, <a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/105265e8-311a-4b39-a71b-e455a86dd0ba/content" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0065F2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">according
to the report Women, Business and the Law 2023, recently published by the World Bank.</span></a> Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Sweden as well as Germany and the Netherlands were the nations
offering full equal rights for men and <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/1269/women/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0065F2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">women</span></a>, at least from a legal perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Germany and the Netherlands were the newcomers among those rated at 100 points this year. Both countries equalized parental leave entitlements
between the sexes. In the case of Germany, the law changes occurred before the past 12 months but the country received a revised score as part of this year's report, hitting 100 percent equality for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">99 places out of the 190 assessed countries and territories ranked at 80 percent or above, up from 98 in 2022 and 94 in 2021. Saudi Arabia, which
came in last as recently as 2019, has improved its score <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/womens-rights-in-saudi-arabia-driving-ban-2018-3?r=DE&IR=T" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0065F2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">following new
laws implemented in the country</span></a> and now ranks 136th at 71.3 percent. The last place in the 2023 ranking went to the West Bank and Gaza (26.3 percent), ahead of Yemen (26.9 percent), Sudan (29.4 percent) and Qatar (29.4 percent).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.statista.com/study/13008/women-in-the-us-statista-dossier/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0065F2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The
United States ranked at 91.3 percent below</span></a> countries like Peru and Albania. It lost points because of a lack of laws guaranteeing equal pay and equal pensions in addition to having <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/8336/women-s-reproductive-health-in-the-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0065F2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">notoriously
bad laws around parental leave.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/17290/countries-with-most-equal-rights-for-women/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;mso-ligatures:none;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="433" height="720" style="width:4.5069in;height:7.5in" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image003.png@01D9880B.64927D40" alt="Only 14 countries have full equal rights for women"></span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Germany has a score of 100 for the first time following legal changes in the past year. Image: Statista<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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