WORLD Workplace Gender Discrimination Laws 2024

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria...and 190 more, 2023

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WLD_2024_WWGDL_v01_M

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WORLD Policy Analysis Center

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Feb 23, 2026

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Feb 23, 2026

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hiring: prohibition of marital status discrimination (hir_marital)

Data file: world-wgdl-2024-v1

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Valid: 192

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Width: 69

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	No prohibition	76	39.6%
2	General prohibition of discrimination in hiring or recruitment	15	7.8%
4	Broad prohibition of workplace discrimination based on marital status	13	6.8%
5	Yes, marital status-specific prohibition	88	45.8%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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