Denmark - 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
2020 8.30

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
2020 31.80

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Denmark was 26.63 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 28.50 in 2011, while its lowest value was 17.57 in 2001.

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 19.74
2001 17.57
2002 17.88
2003 20.48
2004 20.62
2005 21.36
2006 20.36
2007 25.30
2008 19.42
2009 19.89
2010 19.14
2011 28.50
2016 28.01
2017 27.00
2018 26.33
2019 26.63

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment