Women have opened more FPOs than men in Ukraine since the beginning of the year
Ukrainians have opened 51% of small businesses since the beginning of 2023.
This is what the Opendatabot study says.
According to the statistics, Ukrainian women opened 189,776 small businesses in 2023, which corresponds to 51% of the share of all registered FPOs since the beginning of 2023.
A third of the new FPOs registered by women are in retail trade - almost twice as many as men in this category.
More than 10,600 women entrepreneurs have started their own businesses in IT - the second highest number of registrations - but this is only 34% of the total number of FPOs in this category.
Women also lead in other personal services (85% of new businesses are women), clothing manufacturing, education and HR (75%), social care (74%) and healthcare (72%).
However, when it comes to women heading companies, the trend still leaves a lot to be desired. Year after year, the number of female directors in medium and large businesses is decreasing. In 2021, only 35% of businesses were headed by women. A year of full-scale invasion has reduced their share to 29%.
Since the beginning of 2023, 3,849 medium and large companies have been opened, 30% of which are led by women.
The increase in the number of women entrepreneurs in Ukraine has been recorded since 2017.