More and More Female Individual Entrepreneurs — The Figure Has Risen to 46.6%
Are individual entrepreneurs a gender-balanced community?
8 March 2021
In Ukraine, 863,455 women work as individual entrepreneurs, which accounts for 46.6%—almost half of all entrepreneurs. The proportion of women increases from year to year, e.g., it was 44.8% back in 2016.
Women do business mostly in retail trade (43.6%) and provision of other individual services (9.3%).
| Retail trade, except for motor vehicles and motorcycles | 376,895 | 54.4% |
|---|---|---|
| Provision of other individual services | 80,165 | 11.6% |
| Computer programming, consultancy, and related activities | 42,609 | 6.1% |
| Warehousing and support activities for transportation | 41,557 | 6.0% |
| Wholesale trade, except for motor vehicles and motorcycles | 41,039 | 5.9% |
| Real estate transactions | 35,076 | 5.1% |
| Catering | 31,131 | 4.5% |
| Provision of information services | 17,141 | 2.5% |
| Legal and accounting activities | 14,382 | 2.1% |
| Advertising and market research | 13,106 | 1.9% |
Computer programming, consultancy, and related activities (4.9%) take third place among the areas where women operate. As of February this year, 43,407 women work as IT entrepreneurs.
| Year | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female individual entrepreneurs in the IT industry, % | 21.1 | 20.9 | 21.2 | 22.5 | 23.5 | 24.7 |
The proportion of women among individual entrepreneurs in the IT industry increases significantly every year. In 2017, it was 20.9%, while this year, it’s already 24.7%.
Source: Opendatabot
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