43.2% of male self -employed in Spain ensures that the billing of their business has decreased in the first quarter of 2025, a percentage that is 7.1 percentage points worse than among women, whose companies have cut income in 36.1% of cases.
This is one of the conclusions of the barometer on the situation of autonomous work in Spain corresponding to the first quarter of 2025which has been prepared by the National Federation of Associations of Autonomous Workers (ATA), which interviewed 33.7% of autonomous women and 65.7% of menwith a total of more than 1,200 respondents. It should be remembered that the autonomous women still represent less than six out of ten troops from the group of self -employed workers.
The figures of the report, they are 53.8% of men say that their business has remained or even improved, compared to 58.6% of women entrepreneurs. However, and despite the fact that women’s businesses endure better, among those who claim that their turnover has increased, this rebound is less among women than in business run by men.
As for what is related to employment and hiring issues, the ATA barometer shows how women hire less but also have less difficulty finding new workers when they need it. Thus, while 62.7% of men claim that they do employ, this percentage drops to 51.1% In the case of women who lead their own activity.
The most significant percentage is in the fact that while 19.6% have tried to hire But they have had many difficulties and have not achieved it, this percentage among autonomous women descends to 13.7%.
In addition, and taking a step towards hiring trends In the face of the coming months, the forecast is to continue the same: women have less foresight to hire than male self -employed: 69.6% of women say they have no intention of hiring for the next months compared to 64.2% of male self -employed.
On the other hand, Money is much less among women That among men, then, while 47.5% of the men surveyed by ATA claim to suffer from this problem, in the case of autonomous women it only affects 34.8% of the collective, that is, 12 less points.
Finally, women know less the different aids that exist and consequently benefit less from them. Specifically, 10.9% of men do not know aid while this percentage amounts to 16.7% in the case of autonomous women. Consequently, while 34.4% of the self -employed men claim to have requested the digital kit, In the case of women it has been only 30.9%.
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