Science and technology fields welcome more women – Products Eurostat News

In 2021, there were pretty much 74 million folks in the EU aged 15 to 74 utilized in science and technological innovation, an enhance of 3% in comparison with 2020 and 21% when compared with 2011. 

Of this 74 million, 52% were being women, +4% in comparison with 2020 and +26% in contrast with 2011. Data show that the female workforce grew extra than their male counterparts (+1% far more male compared with 2020 and +16% in comparison with 2011). 

Among EU areas (NUTS1), the maximum share of gals utilized in science and technology in 2021 was noticed in Latvia and Lithuania (the two 63% solitary areas at this degree of element), adopted by the Excellent Simple and North in Hungary, the Central area in Poland, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany and North and South-East Bulgaria (all 61%), the Portuguese region of Azores and Estonia (single area at this level of detail) with 60%. 

At the other stop of the scale, the most affordable share was recorded in Malta (44% one region at this level of element), adopted by the Italian areas of South (46%), North-East and North-West as nicely as South Netherlands all with 47%. 

 Source dataset: hrst_st_rsex

An investigation by age demonstrates that much more than 50 percent (53.3% or 9.4 million) of the 17.6 million younger people today aged 25 to 34 doing the job in science and technologies in 2021 were being ladies. In a ten years, the variety of females functioning in this field greater by 14.8%, the equal of +1.2 million women. By comparison, the amount of men in this place improved by 10.8% due to the fact 2011 to 8.2 million in 2021. 

In 2021, 45% of the 68.3 million folks aged 25 to 64 used in science and technological innovation in the EU were being individuals among 45 and 64 a long time old (additional than 30.8 million), 29% were in between 35 and 44 years previous (19.9 million) and 26% were men and women aged 25 to 34 (17.6 million). 

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Methodological notes: 

• The names of the regions introduced in the write-up are English translations of the primary names. 
• Regional facts for Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia: one locations at this degree of depth. Iceland, Norway and Switzerland: solitary regions at this stage of element.

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