Women with Disabilities

Women with Disabilities

The Women, Business and the Law (WBL) indicators rely on standardized assumptions to measure how laws and regulations promote women’s employment and entrepreneurship across 190 economies. However, women are not a homogenous group. Women with disabilities face additional barriers in their socio-economic participation compared to men with disabilities and to non-disabled women and men. To better understand the impact of such multiple discrimination, WBL is conducting research on the rights of women with disabilities. As part of The World Bank Group’s Commitments on Disability-Inclusive Development, WBL is collecting and analyzing data on the rights of women with disabilities under family law, labor law, and violence against women legislation.