Philippines - 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 32.70
2015 29.90

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
2009 69.40
2015 69.20

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Philippines was 29.31 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 13 years was 59.31 in 2006, while its lowest value was 23.24 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
2006 59.31
2007 38.78
2008 41.68
2009 42.76
2010 42.20
2011 41.17
2012 42.16
2013 43.01
2014 41.76
2015 42.72
2017 23.24
2018 25.51
2019 29.31

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment