ANKARA

Women account for 35 percent of all managers in European Union member states, compared to 26 percent in Turkey, but the gender pay gap in Turkey is better than in most EU states, the EU's statistical office Eurostat said Monday.

"Nearly 7.3 million persons hold managerial positions in enterprises with 10 employees or more located in the EU: 4.7 million men and 2.6 million women," it said.

Although representing approximately half of all employed persons in the EU, women continue to be underrepresented among managers, the office underlined.

The largest share of women among managerial positions was seen in Latvia with 53 percent, Eurostat showed, the “only member state where women are a majority in this occupation."

Bulgaria and Poland followed (44 percent each), with Ireland next (43 percent), Estonia (42 percent), and finally Lithuania, Hungary, and Romania (41 percent each).

In Turkey, 102,788 women, or 26 percent, are in managerial position out of a total 401,953, said Eurostat.

"At the opposite end of the scale, women account for less than a quarter of managers in Germany, Italy and [Greek] Cyprus, Belgium and Austria as well as Luxembourg. At EU level, about a third of managers are women," the EU figures said.

Women earn less than men

Meanwhile, women in managerial positions earn 23.4 percent less than men on average in the EU, according to EU data.

Romania has the narrowest gender pay gap with 5 percent, ahead of Slovenia with 12.4 percent, Belgium 13.6 percent, and Bulgaria 15 percent.

The gender pay gap in managerial positions in Turkey was significantly less than in most EU countries, with 7 percent.

"A female manager earns about a third less than her male counterpart in Hungary (33.7 percent), Italy (33.5 percent) as well as the Czech Republic (29.7 percent), and about a quarter less in Slovakia (28.3 percent), Poland (27.7 percent), Austria (26.9 percent), Germany (26.8 percent), Portugal (25.9 percent), Estonia (25.6 percent), and the United Kingdom (25.1 percent)," it added.

The data, extracted from the four-yearly structure of earnings survey for reference year 2014, was published by Eurostat ahead of this Wednesday, March 8, International Women’s Day.

The number of women and men managers in various countries is as follows:

Number of employees Total Men Women Women’s share Gender pay gap European Union 7,240,313 4,672,744 2,567,570 35% 23.4% Belgium 80,898 62,164 18,734 23% 13.6% Bulgaria 85,779 48,451 37,329 44% 15.0% Czech Republic 146,094 102,814 43,280 30% 29.7% Denmark 131,969 92,646 39,323 30% 21.9% Germany 708,369 550,074 158,295 22% 26.8% Estonia 23,343 13,622 9,721 42% 25.6% Ireland 110,110 62,222 47,888 43% 15.9% Spain 207,869 131,843 76,026 37% 16.2% France 1,373,791 821,725 552,066 40% 22.2% Italy 133,334 104,055 29,278 22% 33.5% Greek Cypriot admin. 8,578 6,724 1,854 22% 16.0% Latvia 54,540 25,762 28,778 53% 17.6% Lithuania 79,003 46,864 32,139 41% 18.8% Luxembourg 20,772 15,690 5,082 24% 22.1% Hungary 115,711 68,068 47,643 41% 33.7% Malta 12,277 8,557 3,720 30% 21.5% Netherlands 361,826 260,677 101,149 28% 21.4% Austria 104,891 80,974 23,917 23% 26.9% Poland 573,942 320,610 253,332 44% 27.7% Portugal 71,837 48,073 23,763 33% 25.9% Romania 232,462 136,473 95,988 41% 5.0% Slovenia 19,493 12,237 7,256 37% 12.4% Slovakia 86,762 53,483 33,279 38% 28.3% Finland 45,454 29,822 15,632 34% 21.3% Sweden 199,798 120,689 79,109 40% 16.3% The United Kingdom 2,251,412 1,448,427 802,986 36% 25.1% Iceland 6,057 3,621 2,436 40% 26.7% Norway 148,327 95,304 53,023 36% 22.6% Switzerland 293,995 206,847 87,147 30% 24.3% Montenegro 2,495 1,791 703 28% 6.0% FYR of Macedonia 13,995 9,481 4,514 32% 11.9% Serbia 55,953 34,972 20,981 37% 13.7% Turkey 401,953 299,165 102,788 26% 7.0%



