Uruguay - 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 19.40
2017 10.60

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 41.60
2010 23.10
2017 37.00

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

Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in Uruguay was 35.18 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 37.27 in 2018, while its lowest value was 11.39 in 2004.

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 20.46
2001 15.09
2002 13.71
2003 13.26
2004 11.39
2005 17.28
2006 23.43
2007 22.12
2008 17.88
2009 22.52
2010 23.65
2011 31.24
2012 36.47
2013 34.18
2014 31.80
2015 34.01
2016 33.67
2017 35.05
2018 37.27
2019 35.18

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment