World Bank · Gender

Brazil: WBL: Legal Framework, Parenthood, Score

84ordinal scale (0-100) · 2025

The Parenthood legal frameworks topic score measures the availability of maternity and paternity leave, whether the cost is covered by the government, and whether dismissal of pregnant workers is prohibited. It is divided into four indicators, some of which consist of several questions. It is calculated as the unweighted average of the indicator scores in that topic and rescaled to a 0–100 scale, where 0 represents the lowest possible score and 100 the highest possible score. For details on underlying questions and scoring assumptions, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf). Annual figures for Brazil from 2025 to 2025.