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Canada tops the G20 ranking. There, women account for 51.1% of positions in the top five grades of the civil service. It is the only G20 country to have reached gender parity.
The mean proportion of women leaders in the civil services of G20 countries is 29.3% – a 1.6 percentage point improvement in the two years since our last Index and a 9.6 point improvement over 10 years.
Mexico has increased the representation of women in civil service leadership positions the most of all G20 countries, by a dramatic 24.3 percentage points since 2012, while South Africa has made the most improvement in the two years since the last Women Leaders Index – a jump of 7.2 points.
Three G20 countries have regressed over the last two years, with fewer women officials in senior positions now than in 2020. These are China, Russia and Argentina. Indonesia has made no improvement over the same period. China has also regressed over the last decade, as have Turkey and South Korea.
Bulgaria, where women account for 59.5% of the top two tiers of its civil service, tops the EU ranking. Eight other EU countries – Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Finland, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania and Portugal – have reached or exceeded gender parity.
The mean proportion of women in the top two tiers of EU countries’ civil services is 42.7%. This is a 0.8 percentage point improvement since the last Index was published in 2020, and a 7.5 point improvement since 2012.
Of the 27 EU countries, Croatia has made the most improvement since 2012 – a rise of 21.1 percentage points. Bulgaria has made the greatest improvement since the 2020 Index, at 7.8 points.
Hungary has regressed over the last 10 years. Slovakia also has fewer women in the most senior civil service positions now than in 2012 but is closer to gender parity as a result. Six EU countries – Sweden, Poland, Cyprus, Italy, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg – have regressed in terms of proportion of women in the top two tiers of the civil service since the last Index was published in 2020.
Overall, G20 countries are way behind on representation of women in the top five grades of their civil services compared with the EU’s top two grades.
When looking at the means across the G20, EU and OECD, we see that civil services are doing better on representation of women in leadership roles compared with top ministerial cabinet appointments, elected politicians and the boards of publicly-listed private sector companies.
Latvia tops the OECD ranking, with women accounting for 56% of the top tiers of its civil service.
The mean proportion of women in the upper echelons of civil services in the 38 OECD countries is 36.2%. Seven OECD countries have reached or exceeded gender parity.
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