Argentina - 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
2010 9.20
2017 8.00

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
2006 30.30
2010 38.00
2017 57.80

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Argentina was 33.14 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 15 years was 38.64 in 2014, while its lowest value was 26.26 in 2005.

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
2004 28.61
2005 26.26
2006 29.41
2008 29.93
2009 34.43
2010 32.14
2011 30.15
2012 32.34
2013 36.49
2014 38.64
2017 32.63
2018 33.18
2019 33.14

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment