“Mauritius has also come a long way in realizing the importance of women’s contribution to the country’s holistic and long-term development and that today, both men and women benefit from the same legal recognition. This was possible because of a reform in 1980 of the laws of civil rights, that women in Mauritius obtained legal emancipation” - An extract from the speech on the occasion of IORA Ministerial Conference on "Women's Economic Empowerment: A Pre-requisite for Sustainable Development".