Progress of the World's Women

Statistics

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Legal frameworks

Laws on violence against women

Laws on age of marriage and incidence of early marriage

Women’s rights to property ownership and inheritance, by region

Perceptions of domestic violence

Prevalence, laws and perceptions of domestic violence

Maternal mortality and unsafe abortion, by region

The justice chain

Rape case attrition in a sample of European countries

Women’s autonomy in the household

Women in the police and reporting of sexual assault

Women’s representation in the justice system

Legal pluralism and justice for women

Women’s contact with community leaders and government officials

Reservations to CEDAW

Justice for women during and after conflict

Prosecutions for sexual violence in international courts

Women’s and men’s views on what kind of reparations are needed in the Central African Republic

Women’s and men’s perceptions of why reparations are important in the Central African Republic

Laws and policies on gender equality and women’s representation in parliaments in sub-Saharan Africa

Gender justice and the Millennium Development Goals

Ratio of women to men of working age in the poorest households in sub-Saharan Africa

Secondary school attendance rates for girls in urban rich and rural poor households

Women’s representation in political decision-making

Sex ratios at birth, for countries with large female deficits (1980–2010)

Skilled attendance at delivery, urban rich and rural poor women

Barriers to women accessing health care, in selected countries with high rates of maternal mortality

Women who reported not being able to ask their husband or partner to use a condom

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