Latvia - 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
2009 31.30
2013 33.90
2019 32.60

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
2005 36.30
2009 46.30
2013 41.60
2019 46.60

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Latvia was 43.54 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 46.30 in 2016, while its lowest value was 37.07 in 2000.

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
2000 37.07
2001 39.98
2002 38.09
2003 45.38
2004 42.47
2005 42.00
2006 40.86
2007 42.11
2008 41.25
2009 41.46
2010 39.08
2011 44.34
2012 44.64
2013 42.22
2014 42.05
2015 44.26
2016 46.30
2017 44.14
2018 43.22
2019 43.54

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment