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##Legislation of protecting equality in different groups

This bar chart show the number of countries that has legislation protecting gender equality in Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets and Pension, based on Women, Business and Law Data researched by World Bank Group. You can click on the buttons with different groups to see how many countries have legislation protecting equality in these groups. The dark blue bar shows the number of countries that have legislation subjected by these questions. The orange bar shows the number of countries that do not have legislation subjected by these questions.

When comparing group against groups, most countries has legislation protecting gender equality in mobility. Least countries has legislation protecting equality in parenthood. When comparing number of countries inside the groups, for mobility, each question has more than 80 percent of countries answering yes, showing legislation protecting gender equality is shared by significant amount of countries in the world. Workplace and Pay legislations are analyzed in previous section. In legislation of marriage, there is a decreasing pattern in answering yes to these questions over countries. One can infer that legislation of protecting equality in obedience, household, domestic violence, divorce and remarrying decreases in this order. Q4 in Parenthood, “Is there paid parental leave?”, has a distinctive distribution, where countries answering no is more than two times countries answering yes. This means paid parental leave is still not accepted by a significant number of countries. Entrepreneurship also has a distinct pattern, while most countries answer yes in Q2, Q3 and Q4, less than half of countries answer yes in Q1, “Does the law prohibit discrimination in access to credit based on gender?”. It shows that credit equality in gender is still not protected by legislation in more than half of the countries. For Assets and Pension, there is no clear pattern where one question has distinct answers.

In general, among groups of legislation of gender equality, mobility has the most protection, and parenthood has least protection. Several problems that has fewest number of countries that has legislation include: “Does the law mandate equal remuneration for work of equal value?”, “Does the government administer 100 percent of maternity leave benefits?”, “Is there paid parental leave?” and “Does the law prohibit discrimination in access to credit based on gender?”. These are the problems that organizations promoting gender equality need to work on in the future.