DOI: 10.7910/dvn/5qvmqf
title: WORLD Legislative Repository for Workplace Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Laws 2024

description: The WORLD Legislative Repository for Workplace Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Laws 2024 provides the full-text legislation used to code the WORLD Workplace Discrimination Laws 2024 and WORLD Workplace Sexual Harassment Laws 2024 datasets. The collection includes labor codes, anti-discrimination legislation, anti-violence laws, equal opportunity legislation, penal codes, and other relevant pieces of legislation prohibiting discrimination and sexual harassment at work. All laws in effect as of January 2024 are included, whether they were recently passed or are decades old laws that were still in force. Laws span prohibitions of discrimination across race and/or ethnicity, gender and sex, disability status, religion, political affiliation, social class, age, migrant status, foreign national origin, marital status, pregnancy, care responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics. Files are separated by region and individual country files can be accessed by using Harvard Dataverse's explore function (the eye icon).

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The WORLD Workplace Discrimination Laws dataset is available at &lt;a href = "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SWKKBO"&gt;https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SWKKBO&lt;/a&gt; and was created to assess progress on laws prohibiting discrimination in all aspects of work through a systematic review of labor and equality legislation across all 193 UN countries as of January 2024. The dataset covers discrimination in hiring, promotions and/or demotions, employer-provided training, pay, and terminations, as well as provisions to support effective implementation, such as by prohibiting indirect discrimination, requiring employers to take steps to prevent discrimination, and prohibiting all forms of retaliation for reporting discrimination or participating in investigations. Prohibitions of discrimination are assessed across race and/or ethnicity, gender and sex, disability status, religion, political affiliation, social class, age, migrant status, foreign national origin, marital status, pregnancy, care responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics.

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The WORLD Workplace Sexual Harassment Laws dataset is available at &lt;a href = "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5R7ZXD&gt;https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5R7ZXD&lt;/a&gt; and was created to assess progress on laws prohibiting sexual harassment at work through a systematic review of legislation across all 193 UN countries as of January 2024. The dataset covers whether all forms of sexual harassment are prohibited, whether laws cover everyone in the workplace, and whether laws cover all perpetrators, as well as measures to support effective implementation including employer responsibility to prevent discrimination, employer liability, and protection from all forms of retaliation for reporting sexual harassment or from participating in workplace investigations.

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The WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) is committed to improving the quantity and quality of globally comparative data available to policymakers, citizens, civil society, and researchers on laws and policies that work to support human rights, including economic opportunity, social and civic engagement, human health, development, well-being, and equity.
description: For related publications and policy briefs, see https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SWKKBO and https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5R7ZXD