Poland - 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 31.10
2013 20.40
2019 27.80

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 30.70
2009 47.90
2013 40.20
2019 37.00

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Poland was 41.15 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 41.15 in 2019, while its lowest value was 27.67 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 31.35
2001 27.67
2002 29.32
2003 33.98
2004 35.35
2005 34.06
2006 36.06
2007 37.12
2008 36.20
2009 36.04
2010 37.46
2011 35.91
2012 35.04
2013 35.45
2014 36.36
2015 37.43
2016 38.13
2017 38.19
2018 39.52
2019 41.15

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment