The journey towards women's legal empowerment

For the past 47 years, International Women's Day has been celebrated worldwide on the 8th of March. It honours women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements. The day also serves as a rallying cry for greater gender equality. Although the past decades have been significant progress for women's and girls' rights. Overall, though, progress has been uneven and slow. The worldwide gender gap will not close for another 100 years at the current rate of progress. Women's rights are human rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women was adopted 40 years ago, however, discrimination is still prevalent in law and practise, women and girls have fewer access to resources and opportunities and are under-represented in decision-making at all levels. Over the last decades, 131 countries have added 274 gender-related reforms to their laws and regulations, yet it is projected that more than 2.5 billion women and girls live in countries with at least on discriminatory law (UnitedNations, n.d.). It is the purpose of this project to examine the journey towards women's legal empowerment.

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These charts, as well as the analyses that underpin them, are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. This includes commercial reuse and derivates.

Data in these charts comes from:

• World Bank
  • Women, Business and the Law Data Portal
  • Overall Global Gender Gap Index Portal
  • Gender Portal
• V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy by University of Gothenburg)

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Reproduce the analysis

We typically publish graphics using Quarto notebooks, which can be found in the*.qmd files. Quarto allows reproducible analysis and visualisation to be done in a mix of languages, but we typically use R and Observable JS.

You'll need to:

• Download and install Quarto
• Download the install R
• Satisfy the R package dependencies. In R:
  • Install the renv package with install.packages("renv"),
  • Then run renv::restore() to install the R package dependencies.
  • (For problems satisfying R package dependencies, refer to Quarto's documentation on virtual environments.)

Now, render the .qmd files to the /docs directory with:

quarto render --output-dir docs *.qmd

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