Bulgaria - 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 25.70
2013 23.50
2019 28.80

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 28.80
2007 39.20
2009 33.90
2013 41.50
2019 41.70

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Bulgaria was 39.25 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 42.31 in 2002, while its lowest value was 35.36 in 2014.

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 37.46
2001 40.52
2002 42.31
2003 37.80
2004 41.43
2005 40.61
2006 37.56
2007 36.41
2008 36.51
2009 35.79
2010 38.63
2011 37.00
2012 35.50
2013 36.00
2014 35.36
2015 37.38
2016 39.28
2017 39.29
2018 39.28
2019 39.25

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment