Phl rating unchanged in women, business and law index

The Philippines has made no progress in providing equal economic opportunities for women as it kept its previous year’s rating in the latest Women, Business and Law report of the World Bank.

- LOUELLA DESIDERIO

The report, which measures laws affecting women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies, showed the Philippines scored 78.8 out of 100, unchanged from its score last year.

This score is based on the Women, Business and the Law 1.0 data, which takes into account eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers such as mobility, workplace, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, assets and pension.

The Philippines’ score is slightly higher than the global average score of 77.9 and the regional average score of East Asia and the Pacific of 73.

In addition to the Women, Business and the Law 1.0 data, this year’s edition presents a new approach to measure the implementation gap between the law and how they function in practice through the Women, Business and the Law 2.0 data.