rights and secure access to land assets, without over the past 昀椀fty-year period as head of state or legal exceptions regarding some groups of women. head of government in a country. However, some customary, religious or traditional practices or laws discriminate against women’s Period: Data as of 1 March 2023. legal right; Uneven rights: Women and men have Source: World Economic Forum’s calculations. 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 Access to justice to use, make decisions and/or use land assets as Measures whether women and men have the collateral; Unequal rights: Women do not have the same rights to provide testimony in court, hold same legal rights as men to own land assets. public or political of昀椀ce in the judiciary and sue. For each case, the OECD numerical scores have been Period: 2019. translated as: Equal rights: A woman’s testimony Source: OECD, Gender, Institutions and holds the same evidentiary weight as a man’s in all Development Database (GID-DB). types of court cases and women have the same rights as men to sue and to hold public or political of昀椀ce in the judiciary. Customary, religious and traditional laws or practices do not discriminate Access to non-land assets against women’s legal right to sue, to provide Index measuring whether women and men have the testimony in court or to be a judge, advocate or same legal rights and secure access to non-land other court of昀椀cer; Near-equal rights: A woman’s assets. For each case, the OECD numerical scores testimony holds the same evidentiary weight as have been translated as: Equal rights: Women a man’s in all types of court cases and women and men have the same legal rights and secure have the same rights as men to sue and to hold access to non-land assets, without legal exceptions public or political of昀椀ce in the judiciary. Women’s regarding some groups of women. Customary, testimony carries the same evidentiary weight in religious and traditional laws or practices do not customary/religious courts/tribunals. However, discriminate against women’s legal rights; Near- some customary, traditional or religious practices equal rights: Women and men have the same or laws discriminate against women’s legal right to legal rights and secure access to non-land assets, sue, to provide testimony in court or to be a judge, without legal exceptions regarding some groups advocate or other court of昀椀cer; Uneven rights: A of women. However, some customary, religious or woman’s testimony holds the same evidentiary traditional practices or laws discriminate against weight as a man’s in all types of court cases and women’s legal right; Uneven rights: Women and women have the same rights as men to sue. men have the same legal rights and secure access However, women do not have the same right as to non-land assets. However, this does not apply to men to hold public or political of昀椀ce in the judiciary; all groups of women; Restricted rights: Women and Restricted rights: Women and men have the same men have the same legal rights to own non-land rights to sue. However, a woman’s testimony does assets, but not to use, make decisions and/or use not hold the same evidentiary weight as a man’s land assets as collateral; Unequal rights: Women in all types of court cases; Unequal rights: Women do not have the same legal rights as men to own and men do not have the same rights to sue. non-land assets. Period: 2019. Period: 2019. Source: OECD, Gender, Institutions and Source: OECD, Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB). Development Database (GID-DB). Freedom of movement Civil and political freedom Measures whether women and men have the same rights to apply for national identity cards (if Year women received right to vote applicable) and passports and travel outside the Refers to the year in which the right to vote or stand country. For each case, the OECD numerical scores for election on a universal and equal basis was have been translated as: Equal rights: Women and recognized. Where two years are shown, the 昀椀rst men have the same rights to apply for national refers to the 昀椀rst partial recognition of the right to identity cards (if applicable) and passports and to vote or stand for election. travel outside the country, without legal exceptions regarding some groups of women. Customary, Period: 2023. religious and traditional laws or practices do not Source: Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) Parline. 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, Number of female heads of state to date without legal exceptions regarding some groups The number of women who have ever taken of昀椀ce of women. However, some customary, traditional Global Gender Gap Report 2023 71