Achieving a gender equality in employment and education is a key policy goal in developing countries, and legal reform to this end has been implemented, for example, by introduction of law banning unequal treatment of women for employment and promotion and regulations banning work harassment. However, in many cases, the reform process is constrained by the conflicting cultural and traditional laws and norms. By “sharia” or Muslim law, treating women unfavorably for inheritance is admitted while modern (or Western) civil law prohibits it. This paper uses cross-sectional survey on legal reforms in Muslim countries in the world and shows there exists positive correlation between the legal reform and the improvement in narrowing the gender gaps in employment and education. Jordanian case is closely examined using micro econometric analysis, using 2016 labor market survey estimated from over 7,000 household data. Probit and OLS estimations show that the enforcement of law is positively correlated with the chances of getting a job.