GGGR 2023
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rights and secure access to land assets, without
legal exceptions regarding some groups of women.
However, some customary, religious or traditional
practices or laws discriminate against women’s
legal right; Uneven rights: Women and men have
the same legal rights and secure access to land
assets. However, this does not apply to all groups
of women; Restricted rights: Women and men have
the same legal rights to own land assets, but not
to use, make decisions and/or use land assets as
collateral; Unequal rights: Women do not have the
same legal rights as men to own land assets.
Period : 2019.
Source : OECD, Gender, Institutions and
Development Database (GID-DB).
Access to non-land assets
Index measuring whether women and men have the
same legal rights and secure access to non-land
assets. For each case, the OECD numerical scores
have been translated as: Equal rights: Women
and men have the same legal rights and secure
access to non-land assets, without legal exceptions
regarding some groups of women. Customary,
religious and traditional laws or practices do not
discriminate against women’s legal rights; Near-
equal rights: Women and men have the same
legal rights and secure access to non-land assets,
without legal exceptions regarding some groups
of women. However, some customary, religious or
traditional practices or laws discriminate against
women’s legal right; Uneven rights: Women and
men have the same legal rights and secure access
to non-land assets. However, this does not apply to
all groups of women; Restricted rights: Women and
men have the same legal rights to own non-land
assets, but not to use, make decisions and/or use
land assets as collateral; Unequal rights: Women
do not have the same legal rights as men to own
non-land assets.
Period : 2019.
Source : OECD, Gender, Institutions and
Development Database (GID-DB).
Civil and political freedom
Year women received right to vote
Refers to the year in which the right to vote or stand
for election on a universal and equal basis was
recognized. Where two years are shown, the first
refers to the first partial recognition of the right to
vote or stand for election.
Period : 2023.
Source : Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) Parline.
Number of female heads of state to date
The number of women who have ever taken office over the past fifty-year period as head of state or
head of government in a country.
Period : Data as of 1 March 2023.
Source : World Economic Forum’s calculations.
Access to justice
Measures whether women and men have the
same rights to provide testimony in court, hold
public or political office in the judiciary and sue. For
each case, the OECD numerical scores have been
translated as: Equal rights: A woman’s testimony
holds the same evidentiary weight as a man’s in all
types of court cases and women have the same
rights as men to sue and to hold public or political
office in the judiciary. Customary, religious and
traditional laws or practices do not discriminate
against women’s legal right to sue, to provide
testimony in court or to be a judge, advocate or
other court officer; Near-equal rights: A woman’s
testimony holds the same evidentiary weight as
a man’s in all types of court cases and women
have the same rights as men to sue and to hold
public or political office in the judiciary. Women’s
testimony carries the same evidentiary weight in
customary/religious courts/tribunals. However,
some customary, traditional or religious practices
or laws discriminate against women’s legal right to
sue, to provide testimony in court or to be a judge,
advocate or other court officer; Uneven rights: A
woman’s testimony holds the same evidentiary
weight as a man’s in all types of court cases and
women have the same rights as men to sue.
However, women do not have the same right as
men to hold public or political office in the judiciary;
Restricted rights: Women and men have the same
rights to sue. However, a woman’s testimony does
not hold the same evidentiary weight as a man’s
in all types of court cases; Unequal rights: Women
and men do not have the same rights to sue.
Period : 2019.
Source : OECD, Gender, Institutions and
Development Database (GID-DB).
Freedom of movement
Measures whether women and men have the
same rights to apply for national identity cards (if
applicable) and passports and travel outside the
country. For each case, the OECD numerical scores
have been translated as: Equal rights: Women and
men have the same rights to apply for national
identity cards (if applicable) and passports and to
travel outside the country, without legal exceptions
regarding some groups of women. Customary,
religious and traditional laws or practices do not
discriminate against these rights: Near-equal
rights: Women and men have the same rights
to apply for national identity cards (if applicable)
and passports and to travel outside the country,
without legal exceptions regarding some groups
of women. However, some customary, traditional
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