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# Almost half Estonian managers are women – second in EU

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By  [Sten Hankewitz](https://estonianworld.com/author/stenhankewitz/)
  ·  March 10, 2019  · [Business](https://estonianworld.com/category/business/)
 · 1 minute of reading

### Almost half of the managers in Estonia are women, placing the country second in the European Union, together with Bulgaria.

According to Eurostat, the European statistics agency, 49 per cent of the leadership positions in Estonia are held by women. That makes Estonia to stand out among its peers, as on the average, only 36 per cent of managers in the EU are women.

Almost 9.4 million people in the European Union hold leadership positions, according to the agency. Six million of them are held by men (64%) and just 3.4 million by women. That has remained unchanged since 2012.

The only country in the EU where the majority of managers are women is Latvia – a whopping 56%. Latvia is followed by Estonia and Bulgaria (both 49%), Poland and Slovenia (47%), Hungary (43%), Lithuania and Sweden (42%), Ireland (41%) and Slovakia (40%).

At the other end of the scale is Luxembourg where only 15% of managers are women. In Cyprus, 23% of the leadership positions are held by women; in the Czech Republic, Italy and the Netherlands 29%; in Germany 30%, and in Greece and Austria 32%.

[https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EU-managers.jpg](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EU-managers.jpg)

In 2018, 27% of the board members of EU listed companies and only 17% of senior managers were women.

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## About The Author

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[Sten Hankewitz](https://estonianworld.com/author/stenhankewitz/)
Sten Hankewitz is a lifelong journalist and the Executive Editor at Estonian World. Having lived in Estonia, Spain, the UK and all around the US, he now resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He loves to write and besides working at Estonian World, he [writes books](https://estonianworld.com/culture/the-grand-illusion-estonian-worlds-sten-hankewitz-publishes-a-novel-about-growing-up-in-the-soviet-union/)
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