Estonia - 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 25.80
2013 27.60
2019 22.50

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
2005 28.30
2009 36.30
2013 38.30
2019 35.50

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Estonia was 35.11 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 41.23 in 2004, while its lowest value was 27.84 in 2015.

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 34.83
2001 38.17
2002 37.17
2003 34.80
2004 41.23
2005 41.04
2006 39.63
2007 34.91
2008 36.60
2009 34.34
2010 38.37
2011 34.63
2012 31.62
2013 32.81
2014 30.84
2015 27.84
2016 31.63
2017 34.33
2018 33.24
2019 35.11

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment