Ecuador - 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 17.00
2017 22.90

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 32.70
2010 24.10
2017 70.40

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Ecuador was 37.10 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 16 years was 43.86 in 2011, while its lowest value was 30.18 in 2006.

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
2003 34.41
2004 32.92
2005 33.67
2006 30.18
2007 40.11
2008 33.60
2009 32.68
2010 33.55
2011 43.86
2012 43.23
2013 35.55
2014 35.59
2015 33.32
2016 33.95
2017 35.15
2018 35.26
2019 37.10

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment