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The Eurostat survey shows that women hold top managerial positions in 53% of Latvian companies with ten or more employees. In Bulgaria and Poland, the share companies run by women managers is 44%, in Ireland 43%, in Estonia 42%, in Lithuania, Hungary and Romania 41% and in France and Sweden 40%.

Meanwhile, the lowest share of women in top managerial positions has been recorded in Germany, Italy and Cyprus (22% in each country), Belgium and Austria (23%), as well as Luxembourg (24%).

Eurostat data suggests that in 2014 there were 7.3 mln top managerial positions in companies with at least ten employees across the EU. Of these positions, 4.7 mln or 65% were filled by men and 2.6 mln or 35% by women. Women, who make up around 50 % of the bloc’s working population, are still less represented in top managerial positions than men.

Furthermore, statistics show that women managers’ salaries in the EU’s member states are by 23.4% lower than those of male managers.

The smallest gender pay gap was recorded in Romania (where women receive 5% than men), Slovenia (12.4%), Belgium (13.6%), Bulgaria (15%), Ireland (15.9%), Cyprus (16%), Spain (16.2%), Sweden (16.3%), Latvia (17.6%) and Lithuania (18.8%).

In Estonia, women in top managerial positions received 25.6% less than men on average, while the widest gender pay gap has been recorded in Hungary (33.7%), Italy (33.5%), the Czech Republic (29.7%), Slovakia (28.3%), Poland (27.7%), Austria (26.9%), Germany (26.8%) and Portugal (25.9%).

The Eurostat survey does not include data on Croatia and Greece.