Bolivia - Gender equality

Firms with female top manager (% of firms)

Definition: Firms with female top manager refers to the percentage of firms in the private sector who have females as top managers. Top manager refers to the highest ranking manager or CEO of the establishment. This person may be the owner if he/she works as the manager of the firm. The results are based on surveys of more than 100,000 private firms.

Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys (http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/).

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Year Value
2010 21.70
2017 26.30

Firms with female participation in ownership (% of firms)

Definition: Firms with female participation in ownership are the percentage of firms with a woman among the principal owners.

Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys (http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/).

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Year Value
2006 41.10
2010 41.30
2017 68.60

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%)

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Bolivia was 28.08 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 8 years was 35.66 in 2011, while its lowest value was 26.75 in 2017.

Definition: The proportion of females in total employment in senior and middle management. It corresponds to major group 1 in both ISCO-08 and ISCO-88 minus category 14 in ISCO-08 (hospitality, retail and other services managers) and minus category 13 in ISCO-88 (general managers), since these comprise mainly managers of small enterprises.

Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in December 2019.

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Year Value
2011 35.66
2012 31.50
2013 30.91
2014 35.46
2015 34.45
2016 29.95
2017 26.75
2018 30.44
2019 28.08

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment