Philanthropies & Businesses

Co‑Creating Evidence and Turning Insights into Action

Women, Business and the Law works with philanthropies and businesses to build and apply the world’s leading global dataset on laws affecting women’s economic opportunity. Partners bring expert knowledge, innovative ideas, and catalytic funding that help scale our impact.

We co-create initiatives that draw on partners’ expertise, networks, and resources. Our collaboration goes beyond traditional grants to include joint research, knowledge exchange, and new ways of applying evidence and influencing key decision makers. Together, we invest in data infrastructure, analytics, and research that help countries identify legal barriers, track progress, and design policy solutions that expand women’s economic participation.

 

Sustaining a Global Evidence Public Good

Support WBL dataset, the global benchmark on laws shaping women’s economic opportunity.

Advancing Policy-Relevant Research

Co‑create analysis using WBL data to answer priority policy questions on women’s work.

Expanding the Evidence Base

Invest in frontier research areas, including digital, AI, care, and subnational deep dives.

Turning Evidence into Reform

Support tools, dialogue, and engagement that global leaders use to drive real world reform.

Women, Business and the Law is a vital knowledge partner in our work advancing women’s leadership, providing insights on legal reforms that remove barriers, broaden economic opportunities for women, and foster inclusive growth. — Dr. Anino Emuwa, Managing Director & Founder, 100 Women @ Davos
Women entrepreneurs do not lack ambition or talent — they too often lack equal laws and fair systems. The Women, Business and the Law report provides the evidence policymakers need to close legal gaps and strengthen institutions, so that women-led SMEs in low- and middle-income countries can grow, create jobs and power inclusive economic growth. — Cherie Blair CBE KC

       

Collaboration in practice

Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

In partnership with Intuit and Women, Business and the Law project, the Cherie Blair Foundation gathered cross‑country evidence on how digital tools and online gender‑based violence shape women entrepreneurs’ opportunities in 96 economies.

Gates Foundation

With Gates Foundation support, the Women, Business and the Law project piloted novel research across tax and gender‑responsive budgeting, women’s entrepreneurship, social norms, and subnational legal variation to uncover how laws and policies operate in practice and to support the design of more inclusive and effective reforms.

Oliver Wyman Forum (OWF)

The Women, Business and the Law project, the Oliver Wyman Forum, and Women Political Leaders jointly embarked on the Representation Matters initiative to highlight the importance of women’s representation in decision‑making spaces, combining WBL legal data with evidence on women’s leadership and decision‑making through a shared research and knowledge‑exchange effort that culminated in the publication of the Representation Matters report in 2025.

Gallup

In partnership with Gallup, the Women, Business and the Law project pioneered individual‑level data collection in Bangladesh, Brazil, and Nigeria to capture women’s and men’s self‑reported perceptions of how labor rights are experienced and realized in practice, including pay, job access, career advancement, and workplace protections.

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