Latvia has maintained its reputation for having a large proportion of women in management positions, and despite losing the leading position in the European Union to Sweden over the span of a decade, it remains a close second.
According to Eurostat data published on March 2nd, among EU countries in 2024, the largest share of women in managerial positions was recorded in Sweden (44.4%), followed by Latvia (43.4%) and Poland (41.8%).
Latvia had just over 39,000 women managers, slightly more than the 38,000 it had in 2014. In all there were 90,000 people of both sexes in management positions in Latvia in 2024 (an increase from 87,000 in 2014).
The lowest shares of women in management were in Cyprus (25.3%), Croatia (27.6%) and Italy (27.9%).
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