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They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development\/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.\n\nWe thank the Women Business and the Law project at the Development Economics Global Indicators Department of the World Bank Group for making the data available. We are grateful for feedback received from participants of the World Bank DECIG brown bag seminar series and for Norman Loayza\u2019s and Ana Maria Tribin Uribe\u2019s feedback and helpful guidance throughout the process of drafting this paper. All remaining errors are our own.","production_date":"2024-05","abstract":"This paper explores the role that a country\u2019s political economy, civil society organizations, and women\u2019s rights groups play in advancing legal gender equality. Drawing on the World Bank\u2019s Women, Business and the Law time-series data, which assesses women\u2019s legal rights across eight domains of their lives, five decades, and 190 economies, the results reveal that higher levels of democracy and a more active civil society are positively associated with advances in legal equality between men and women. The analysis also reveals that, beyond an active civil society more broadly, women\u2019s rights groups specifically are a key ingredient to successfully advance legal gender reforms. We show that both democracy and civil society play a more prominent role in removing legal restrictions that are placed upon women than they do in ensuring rights to enabling provisions such as the right to maternity leave, and that women\u2019s rights groups seem particularly important in pushing the needle in this direction. 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