Jamille Bigio is a senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Find her on Twitter @jamillebigio https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/contributor/135760/rss en Equal Pay and Opportunity Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:00:00 +0000 Jamille Bigio https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/community/2018/09/26/nigerias-discriminatory-laws-hurt-women-and-corporations-alike https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/community/2018/09/26/nigerias-discriminatory-laws-hurt-women-and-corporations-alike Nigeria’s working women deserve better legal protection – just as across the world laws making it harder for women to work than men are holding back economic progress. Yet companies will profit from promoting legal reforms to boost women’s participation in the economy.