The Statistical Office of the European Union, Eurostat, issued a press release on Friday 6 March, a few days before International Women's Day, compiling the results of its work on the representation of women in management positions.
Although women make up about half of those employed in the EU, they continue to be under-represented among managers, the statement points out.
For example, in the EU-27, of the 6.7 million people in management positions, only 2.5 million (37%) are women. Latvia is the only Member State where women are in the majority (53%) at this level of responsibility.
France has the highest proportion of women (45%) on the boards of directors of the largest listed companies. At the EU level, however, women make up just over one quarter (28%) of the members of these bodies.
When presenting its strategy for gender equality (see EUROPE 12440/7), the European Commission committed itself in particular to work towards the adoption of the 2012 proposal on gender balance in management boards.
Finally, European women have difficulty reaching the senior management level of large companies. The highest scores in this respect are recorded in Romania (34%), while Luxembourg (6%) or Austria (8%) show particularly low percentages.
Read the press release: http://bit.ly/2TNaHrP (Original version in French by Agathe Cherki)