Women, Business and the Law. Data for 1970-2019; File version: February 27, 2020.                         note: By developing a time series and further researching the interaction between inequality of opportunity for women and labor market dynamics, the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law project strengthens insights into how women’s employment and entrepreneurship are affected by legal gender discrimination, and in turn how this affects economic outcomes. This file contains Women, Business and the Law (WBL) data for 190 economies for 1970 to 2019 (reporting years 1971 to 2020). Data is provided for 35 data points across 8 scored indicators. The WBL index scores are based on the average of each economy’s scores for the 8 topics included in this year’s aggregate score. A higher score indicates more gender equal laws. The scores for previous years have been recalculated to account for data revisions and methodology changes. For more information about the methodology for data collection, scoring and analysis, check out our website at http://wbl.worldbank.org.