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WBL: Supportive Framework, Pay, There are gender-sensitive occupational safety and health (OSH) public policies applicable to the private sector

The indicator assesses whether: (1) the law does not prohibit women from working in certain jobs or economic sectors, or during certain hours, as assessed under questions I; AND (2) there is an active occupational safety and health policy, at either the national, state, or municipal level (that is, a country’s main business city); AND (3) the policy explicitly considers either women’s occupational safety and health, specific risks that disproportionately affect working women (such as reproductive hazards, violence at work, stressful workplace factors, inadequate personal protective equipment, tools and machinery, among others), or the establishment of a national institute that examines gender issues in occupational safety and health. Score = 1 if all three conditions are met; otherwise, score = 0. For details, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf)