Comparative analysis regarding gender equality in decision-making positions in different domains

Abstract

In recent decades, women have become increasingly present in management positions, and their opinions have begun to be taken into account in both sports and other domains. We believe that participation in decision-making is a significant indicator of gender equality in a society and we hope that our analysis will highlight the current situation in Romania regarding this important topic. The present paper aimed to analyse women’s participation in decision-making at national level by comparing sports with other domains. To achieve this, we retrieved and analysed data from statistics compiled by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) for seven life domains: sports, science and research, social dialogue, business and finance, judiciary, public administration and politics. We also aimed to compare the participation of women from Romania and the European Union in decision-making in the sports domain. We considered it necessary to conduct this analysis because participation in decision-making is one of the areas in which Romania’s scores are low in terms of equal opportunities for women and men (according to the data provided by the European Institute for Gender Equality, 2019). In the Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019, the European Commission (2015) claims that promoting equality between women and men in decision-making should be an EU priority.