TIRANA, Sept. 16 – Albania improved getting a job and protecting women from violence in changes increasing gender parity over the past two years, says the World Bank in a report.
Albania’s law on measures against violence in family relations, for example, provides for ordering the perpetrator to leave the common home and pay rent for the victim’s residence.
Albania is described as an upper middle income country with a female population of 1.44 million and a female labour force of 52 percent.
Women run 28.5 percent of active enterprises in Albania, mostly operate in the trade sector.
The Europe and Central Asia region has the world’s most extensive job restrictions on women, keeping women out of many occupations, says the World Bank Group’s “Women, Business and the Law 2016” report which monitors legal and regulatory barriers to women’s economic advancement.
The latest edition of the biennial report covers 173 economies throughout the world, including 23 from the Europe and Central Asia region.
