Women exceed men by 12 percent in civil service

The number of women working in Maldives civil service is 12 percent more than men, the Civil Service Commission’s (CSC) numbers have shown.

According to statistics published by CSC, 13,088 or 53 percent of civil servants in Maldives are women, where as the number of male employees are 11,654. Maldives has a total of 24,742 civil servants.

A majority of public servants, 16,102 or 65 percent, are employed in the atolls, and the most number of the total number of public servants are between 25 and 29 years of age.

A total of 13 percent employees are expatriate. With a total of 2,880 employees, Indians hold the majority and Bangladeshis are in second place.

About 40 percent or 6,803 the civil servants receive a salary of less than MVR 5,000 per month, of which 40 percent are employed in the capital Male’. A total of 373 civil service employees receive between MVR 10,000 and 15,000 per month and 75 employees receive over MVR 15,000 per month.

The majority of civil servants, 7,036 or 28 percent, are teachers. Administrative staff are second larges in number, a total of 7,495 employees.