Sweden - 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
2014 12.50
2020 14.00

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
2014 52.50
2020 37.30

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Sweden was 41.85 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 41.85 in 2019, while its lowest value was 27.58 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 27.58
2001 31.16
2002 32.25
2003 30.54
2004 31.64
2005 31.91
2006 31.73
2007 31.02
2008 30.82
2009 31.13
2010 31.32
2011 33.51
2012 34.50
2013 35.52
2014 37.47
2015 39.79
2016 39.51
2017 39.43
2018 39.04
2019 41.85

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment