More women in the workforce

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Monica Renstig

Monica Renstig, CEO

CEO and Founder

monica.renstig@wombri.se Box 5501 SE 114 85 Stockholm Visitors: Storgatan 19

Phone: +46 8 667 55/ +46 70 774 33 74 www.wombri.se


Lots of Swedish women are working – we are not best – but we have a low gap EMPLOYMENT RATE % 1 Iceland 2 Norway 3 Denmark 4 Switzerland 5 Sweden 6 Netherlands 8 Finland 9 UK 14 USA 16 Germany 19 Ireland 20 France 34 Italy US

80,3 75,4 74,4 73,5 73,2 70,2 69,0 66,9 65,5 64,3 60,5 60,1 47,2 66,0

Source: OECD 2008-09, working ages

THE GENDER GAP 7,5 5,2 8,0 11,9 4,9 11,7 4,4 11,6 10,9 11,6 15,1 9,1 23,1 1,0





In Europe women can have a job but not a career Female High-level decision makers in different countries USA

45 %

UK

33 %

Sweden

29 %

Germany

27 %

Italy

18 %

ILO June 05. Decisionmakers incl. Legislators, senior officials, Managers in all types of business.


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