Women with leadership roles in firms in Tunisia 2020
As of 2020, women participated in the ownership of around 40 percent of the businesses in Tunisia. However, the share declined to nearly eight percent when considering firms with majority female ownership. Moreover, some 10 percent of Tunisian firms had a female as top manager as of the same period. Female participation in ownership in the country was higher than the global average, set at 33.1 percent according to the same survey. Nevertheless, the proportion of women as the majority shareholders of businesses was significantly higher worldwide, around 15 percent.
