40.6 percent women in the workforce of cooperatives
Published: Saturday, Jan 20th 2024, 08:00
Updated At: Sunday, Jan 21st 2024, 00:59
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The proportion of women among employees in Swiss cooperatives has increased by 4 percentage points to 40.6% over the past four years. This is the conclusion of a study by the cooperative association Idée Coopérative.
Furthermore, 34% of managers in Swiss cooperatives were recently female (2019: 26%). This means that the proportion of women in management positions in cooperatives is slightly below the national average. According to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), this was 36% in 2022.
The majority of cooperatives in Switzerland are active in residential construction (45%), followed at some distance by the energy sector (8%) and agriculture (7%).
The representative survey for the "Genossenschaftsmonitor 2024" was conducted by FehrAdvice & Partners in fall 2023 with almost 400 cooperatives. The first Cooperative Monitor was published in 2020. The industry association Idée Coopérative was founded as a cooperative in the same year and has 133 members.
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