Belgium - 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 17.90

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
2020 44.20

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Belgium was 31.88 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 34.77 in 2010, while its lowest value was 24.53 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 24.53
2001 28.38
2002 27.97
2003 27.33
2004 26.91
2005 30.24
2006 31.13
2007 33.54
2008 31.90
2009 34.57
2010 34.77
2011 30.45
2012 31.67
2013 30.75
2014 31.30
2015 31.04
2016 31.98
2017 32.91
2018 33.45
2019 31.88

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment