South Africa - 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 38.50

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
2007 22.60
2020 10.60

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in South Africa was 33.26 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 35.73 in 2016, while its lowest value was 22.58 in 2000.

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 22.58
2001 22.62
2002 25.46
2003 27.65
2004 26.83
2005 30.48
2006 31.40
2007 32.00
2008 31.46
2009 33.23
2010 32.05
2011 33.65
2012 34.77
2013 33.12
2014 34.29
2015 33.89
2016 35.73
2017 35.23
2018 33.93
2019 33.26

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment