A new study has found that most Pacific countries are still behind the rest of the world in removing barriers to women's economic participation and reforming discriminatory laws.
Carried out by the World Bank the study analyses laws and regulations affecting women's economic inclusion in 190 countries.
Fiji, Kiribati and Samoa made the biggest improvements in the Pacific.
But the Bank's manager for the Women Business and the Law project, Tea Trumbic, told Koroi Hawkins that women across the region still face many challenges.
Artwork at the Fiji Women's Rights Movement's headquarters in Suva, Fiji Photo: RNZI/Sally Round
