The World Bank has said that full workplace equality does not exist anywhere in the world, and only “less than 5% of women worldwide” live in economies with near full legal economic equality. Even in instances when workplace equality laws are passed by lawmakers they are truly enforced in only about half of all cases, the World Bank said in a report on women, business and the law. “Even in economies that have modernized their laws, women still face constraints that shape the work they can do, the businesses they can start, and the safety they need to pursue opportunities,” said Dr Indermit Gill, the bank’s chief economist.
