Four out of ten entrepreneurs in Romania are female and more than one third of managers in the economy as a whole are women, president of the National Council of SMEs in Romania (CNIPMMR) Florin Jianu said on Monday at the launch conference of the European Employers' Association of Business Women (PEFA)."As far as women running listed companies are concerned, we are in first place at European level, which is extraordinary, with an average of 31.6%, the European average being 20%. At the level of the whole economy, 33.2% of managers are women in Romania, a percentage close to what happens at the European level, that is 35%, a higher percentage than in traditional countries: Germany has 29%, Italy 28% and the Netherlands 26%. These are official data from Eurostat," Florin Jianu stressed.According to data presented by the head of the CNIPMRR, four out of ten entrepreneurs (38.4%) in Romania are female. Within this margin, the best representation is recorded in the Centre region (44.5%), followed by the Bucharest-Ilfov region (44%). A lower presence of female entrepreneurs is recorded in the West region, with 31.9%, as a total average.Regarding the emergence of the European Employers' Association of Business Women (PEFA), the CNIPMMR representative pointed out that the organisation joins an extremely professional and ambitious family.Representatives of the authorities and the business environment participate on Monday in the debate on "Gender equality. Agenda 2030," on the sidelines of which the European Employers' Association of Business Women (PEFA) will be launched.The organisation is a member of the National Council of Small and Medium-Sized Private Enterprises in Romania (CNIPMMR), the only nationally representative employers' organisation for SMEs. (Photo:https://cnipmmr.ro/)
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