Dominican Republic - 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 11.00
2016 21.20

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
2010 30.00
2016 32.20

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Dominican Republic was 50.19 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 57.97 in 2012, while its lowest value was 31.50 in 2002.

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 36.94
2001 40.03
2002 31.50
2003 39.05
2004 40.33
2005 45.09
2006 45.00
2007 38.58
2008 37.51
2009 45.37
2010 46.20
2011 51.83
2012 57.97
2013 46.59
2014 46.67
2015 48.92
2016 47.44
2017 50.49
2018 44.79
2019 50.19

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment