This article aims to investigate the effect of countries’ culture on women’s right to economic participation. As a secondary objective, the article aims to analyse the effect of culture on the progress made in the laws of the countries over the last five decades. The dataset comprises the national culture dimensions of Hofstede and the scores related to gender inequalities in the law provided in the Women, Business and the Law (WBL) database from The World Bank. Using multivariate regression analysis, we evaluated the effect of the cultural dimensions on the current WBL scores and on the variation of the WBL scores over the last five decades. The results show that the dimensions of culture (individualism, uncertainty avoidance and power distance) affect women’s right to economic participation and/or the evolution of laws in this direction. The results also suggest that although some countries still have much to advance in their legislation, more and more countries are reaching the goal of having an egalitarian society.

本文旨在调查国家文化对女性经济参与权的影响。作为次要目标，本文旨在分析过去五年来文化对各国法律进步的影响。该数据集包括 Hofstede 的国家文化维度以及世界银行妇女、商业和法律 (WBL) 数据库中提供的与法律中的性别不平等相关的分数。使用多元回归分析，我们评估了文化维度对当前 WBL 分数以及过去 50 年 WBL 分数变化的影响。结果表明，文化维度（个人主义、避免不确定性和权力距离）影响妇女的经济参与权和/或朝这个方向发展的法律。