Your business is easier than a director's chair: why there are more women among individual entrepreneurs than at the top of companies Representatives of the "fair sex" make up 41.5% of individual entrepreneurs in Russia, while among managers of legal entities their share is 31.9%, Vedomosti reports, citing research by SuperJob and Outline. focus. The authors of the study explain the gap between these indicators mainly in the conditions for entering the business: registering an individual entrepreneur is simpler, the establishment costs are lower, and a flexible schedule allows you to combine your business with other responsibilities. In addition, marketplaces and online services make it easier to find customers, notes an outline analyst. Focus, Anastasia Mokshantseva. However, a greater representation of women in the private entrepreneurship sector does not mean income equality, she emphasizes. T-Business data confirms this trend: the larger the company, the fewer women there are among its managers. Micro-businesses have about 39% of them, and medium-sized companies - only 18%. Experts associate this image with industry details. Women work more often in fields where growth is limited by personal time - education, the beauty industry and accounting services, explains ATRE partner Victoria Pavlyushina. These zones allow for flexible load management, but are less often adapted to large companies with a turnover of millions of dollars. Thus, Russian business presents a paradoxical picture: women actively dominate entrepreneurship at the entry level, but when moving to the management of large structures, their share drops significantly. Financial guard daughter. C | at MAX.