Women and the charity sector
Among its key findings, the report found:
- The charity sector has created an additional 120,000 jobs for women over the past decade, to become the source of one in every 25 jobs filled by women in 2022,
- women contribute an estimated 64% of the hours worked in civil society, compared to men’s 36%,
- women in the charity sector contributed £19bn to the economy in 2019 – this includes a contribution of £9.9bn through volunteering and £9.2bn through their work as employees in the charity sector,
- women make up between 56%-63% of the sector’s CEOs overall - that falls to 35% of the CEOs of the largest charities and 46% of the CEOs of the oldest charities.
- and in 2022, 72% of women gave money to charitable causes in the previous month, compared to 61% of men.
See also https://tfn.scot/news/gender-imbalance-is-holding-back-the-charity-sector
Last modified on 19 December 2023
