The more the size of companies increases, the fewer women there are at their head: they are 14% in companies with less than 50 employees, but more than 6% in those with more than 250, according to a study presented Thursday by Bpifrance .
The public bank surveyed 417 women managers and 743 managers of SMEs with more than ten employees and medium-sized companies (ETI), which employ between 250 and 4,999 people.
According to this study, only 12% of SMEs and ETIs are managed by women.
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The figure of a third of women entrepreneurs, often quoted, includes, contrary to the study, very small businesses (TPE), which employ less than ten employees, in which the share of women managers is higher.
According to the Bpifrance survey, their average remuneration is lower than that of men, and this “
regardless of the size of the company
”.
A quarter of them earn less than 50,000 euros per year, compared to 14% of men and 5% more than 250,000 euros, compared to 11% of men. 79%.
According to the results obtained by Bpifrance, it is wrong to believe that women experience more difficulties than men in accessing financing.
But business leaders
are a little more cautious than men on fundraising and financing growth
, ”explained to AFP Elise Tissier, director of the Bpifrance Lab who carried out the survey.
While 37% of women managers of SMEs and ETIs have created their own business, almost one in three have taken over a family business, compared to one in ten male managers.
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Female managers have the same level of education as managers, ie mostly Bac+5, but “
they more frequently come from commercial and management courses, where managers prefer scientific and technical courses
”.
The path of female leaders is often “
less linear
” than that of their male counterparts, and they are younger, with a median age of 50 compared to 54 for men.
Before taking the helm of the company, women managers were more often non-executive employees (46%) than executives (36%), while their male counterparts were executives at 52%.