The variety of girls working as scientists and engineers in the EU has been on the rise. Data present a rise from 3.4 million in 2008 to five.2 million in 2014, reaching 7.9 million in 2024.
Across all financial actions, girls represented 40.5% of the EU scientists and engineers’ workforce in 2024.
But Latvia does significantly higher than that, boasting 50.8% girls in its scientific and engineering workforce, comfortably forward of each Estonia (47.8%) and Lithuania (43.8%).
Indeed, on a nationwide scale Latvia outperforms all European nations included in the knowledge besides non EU member Norway, which has 53% girls in its scientific and engineering workforce. However, there are some EU areas reminiscent of jap Poland (53.9%) and northern Sweden (51.9%) with better proportions of girls in the science workforce.
Women in science and engineering, 2024
Photo: Eurostat
Source dataset: hrst_st_rsex
Digging slightly deeper, in relation to human resources in science and technology (HRST), Latvia additionally does very properly. Analysing the employment of the 15-74 age inhabitants in science and expertise occupations by areas exhibits that the highest shares of girls employed in science and expertise occupations in 2024, with greater than 60%, could be noticed in Latvija (62.9%), Makroregion Centralny (Poland) (62.0%), Lithuania (61.0%), and Estonia (60.9%). The prime 25 areas in the EU, EFTA and Candidate nations are ranked beneath.
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