North Macedonia - 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 19.10
2013 16.80
2019 21.30

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
2005 18.60
2009 36.40
2013 27.70
2019 29.30

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in North Macedonia was 28.15 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 13 years was 36.89 in 2009, while its lowest value was 22.54 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 23.56
2007 30.82
2008 30.23
2009 36.89
2010 30.69
2011 26.29
2012 23.28
2013 24.67
2014 25.95
2015 23.00
2016 27.27
2017 22.54
2018 28.21
2019 28.15

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment