The Gender Statistics Database (GSD) of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) contains data on the numbers of women and men in key decision-making positions across a number of different life domains. Data may cover international, European, national, regional and local levels and currently include 38 European countries. The GSD aims to provide reliable statistics that can be used to monitor the current situation and trends over time.
The domains covered include politics, public administration, judiciary, business and finance, social partners and NGOs, environment, media, science and research, sports, and transport. The decision-making positions covered are specific to each area.
A decision-making position is a position from which it is possible to take or influence a decision:
- within a domain: at organisational level. This restricts coverage to organisations having a major influence in the domain at the territorial level of interest, which is usually national but can also be international, European, regional or local;
- within an organisation: at hierarchical level. This restricts coverage to positions within the hierarchy that have a major input to decision-making within the organisation.
WMID Methodological report
The social partners and NGOs domain includes statistics on women and men in key decision-making positions in social partner organisations representing employers and employees at national and European levels, as well as in European NGOs. Data on national social partner organisations cover key decision-making positions in labour and employer’s organisations that are either involved regularly in cross-industry collective bargaining/employment regulation or in bipartite/tripartite consultations on cross-industry labour market and industrial relations issues in each country.
Organisations covered:
- Social partner organisations are labour and employer’s confederations, federations or other bodies forming the two sides of social dialogue. Data cover labour and employer’s confederations, federations or other bodies that have a national scope, are not affiliated to any other higher-level organisation at national level and are either involved regularly in cross-industry collective bargaining or employment regulation; or that are involved in bipartite/tripartite consultations on cross-industry labour market and industrial relations issues. The organisations covered represent more than one economic sector or a category of enterprises or organisations across the economy or a category of employees across the economy. Data also cover regional organisations that are involved in national cross-industry tripartite and/or bipartite arrangements; organisations affiliated to higher-level bodies but which participate in their own right in national cross-industry tripartite and/or bipartite arrangements; and essential single-sector organisations that play a clear role in national cross-industry tripartite and/or bipartite arrangements. Chambers of commerce, industry and services that are involved in collective bargaining or have some other clear industrial relations role are also included in the data.
Positions covered:
- President: highest governing position or chairperson of highest decision-making body. For organisations that do not have a president, the secretary general is counted instead.
- Deputy/Vice-presidents: deputy of the person holding the highest governing position. For organisations that do not have a president and deputy/vice-presidents, deputy/vice-secretary general(s) is counted instead.
- Members: members of the highest decision-making body (count includes the president(s), vice-president(s) and executive head(s), where present). The counting includes only members with full voting rights.
- Executive head: highest executive position or head of the highest executive body. Usually referred to as either the secretary general or managing director. For organisations that do not have a separate executive head position, the president is counted instead.
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