Netherlands - 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 13.70

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 35.00

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Netherlands was 26.01 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 28.32 in 2012, while its lowest value was 21.38 in 2003.

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 21.53
2001 22.40
2002 21.70
2003 21.38
2004 22.33
2005 22.31
2006 25.49
2007 26.76
2008 25.95
2009 26.04
2010 26.90
2011 27.90
2012 28.32
2013 23.13
2014 24.05
2015 24.50
2016 24.38
2017 25.98
2018 24.76
2019 26.01

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment