an igender gap report in the National Public Administration, published by the Secretary of Management and Public Employment, revealed that the participation of women grew, from 36% in 2021, to 48% in December 2022, in career executive positions such as national, general, simple directors and coordinators
The Ministry of Management and Public Employment announced this Tuesday its bi-annual report on the generation gap in the National Public Administration (APN), which covers the set of organisms and institutions that are making state administrative functions.
In published work, The effects of regulations that promote inclusion and allow progress towards parity are beginning to be noticed, generating a break in the gap
The last report, updated to December 2022, shows a strong evolution in terms of gender parity: APN civilian personnel jobs were held by 48.9% by women and 51.1% by men, while 48% in senior positions corresponded to to women and 52% to men.
Regarding the latter, the growth in the presence of women has been recorded since 2019.
The participation of women grew from 36% in 2021 to 48% as of December 2022 in career executive positions of the National Public Administration as national, general, simple directors and coordinators.
It shows a strong evolution of gender parity and an upward trend in the participation of women in positions of authority.
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The values reflect that between December 2022 and 2021 it grew more than ten percent (10%) the presence of women in executive positions in the national public administration; while at the base of the pyramid parity is maintained.
For his part, in the higher authorities there is a tendency to reduce the gap, since the participation of women went from 21% in 2019 to 35% in 2022, although the presence of men continues to be predominant: men are 64% in political positions in the national cabinet such as ministers, secretaries and undersecretaries /as of State.
In this range, the values are maintained without major modifications, except for the positions of ministers, where the presence of women grows from 8% (2021) to 25% (2022).
In turn, it was found that there is gender parity in civilian personnel in the national public sector that does not hold executive or leadership functions, while the gender gap is appreciated as one ascends in the hierarchical scale of positions.
Among the executive functions of the National Public Employment System (SINEP) shows a sustained increase in the presence of women, which is around 40%.
The r stands outgap reduction as regards the National/General Directorates -comparing 2009, first record, with the last, of 2022.
Regarding the higher authorities, The values are maintained without major changes, except for the positions of ministers where the presence of women goes from 8% (2021) to 25% (2022). In this sense, the presence of women in charge of Undersecretaries is also growing, although to a lesser extent.
“The effects of regulations that promote inclusion and allow progress towards parity are beginning to be noticed, which allows us to speak of a break in the well-known “glass ceiling”, a concept that refers to invisible barriers in senior management positions, in the national public administration”, considered the Sociologist Ana Gabriela Castellani, Secretary of Management and Public Employment
The official stressed that the management started in 2019 “increased the participation of women” and this consolidates a trend “from below” of their promotion to senior public management positions, as well as to positions of political trust (higher authorities) that allows “modifying the repeated recruitment biases in the teams; men tend to recruit men,” he said.
“In this regard, there were measures such as the instruction given by the President a year ago to seek greater participation of women in the formation of structures to tend towards parity,”
“I am sure that the trend will continue to consolidate in the future. We will continue working to strengthen leadership training and training and management tools that allow women to hold management positions; having achieved almost parity in senior public management is going to be a distinctive mark of our management, it will not be possible to go back”, Castellani concluded.
negative factors
The report also details two factors that would have a negative impact on the increase in the participation of women; firstly, the reproduction of certain criteria of gender-biased recruitment: the highest positions are held mostly by men and there is a biased recruitment.
In second order, the masculinized forms of the exercise of the role, derived from the charges: the positions are traditionally held by men, the exercise of the role is associated with gender and could be less attractive to women, or put into tension with domestic and/or family dynamics.
This survey is carried out twice a year by the technical teams of the Secretariat for Public Employment and Management, which reports to the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, and the source is the Integrated Base for Public Employment and Salaries, which surveys a universe of study that includes civilian personnel of the national public sector, without including public companies or companies with a majority state shareholding.
