Women outnumbered almost 2:1 in Irish managerial roles

The CSO report also found that men continue to significantly outnumber women as the holders of family farms

It is the latest in a series of recent reports showing the gap that persists between women and men’s career prospects in Ireland. Picture: iStock

There were nearly double the number of men in managerial roles (66%) as women (34%) in the Irish workforce in the second quarter of 2020, despite the fact women make up almost half of the workforce.

That’s according to a new report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), ‘Ireland's UN SDGs 2019 - Report on Indicators for Goal 5 Gender Equality,’ the fifth in a series of CSO publications monitoring how Ireland is progressing towards meeting its targets under the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).