The “PIE Economic Weekly” reported that of the almost 80 million people employed in the EU in the science and technology industry in 2023, 52%, were women.
“According to Eurostat data, which are provided for the so-called EU macroregions, Poland is one of the countries with the highest percentage of women in the science and technology industry,” PIE reported. He also added that in three Polish macroregions the percentage of women in the sector exceeded 58%. These are the macroregions: central (Łódź and Świętokrzyskie voivodeships), where it was 60.59%; eastern (Podlasie, Lublin and Podkarpackie voivodeships) 59.70% and northern (Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Pomeranian and Warmian-Masurian voivodeships) 59.58%.
Other EU regions with such a high percentage include: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. In turn, the regions with the lowest percentage of women included Malta and Italy – in both countries it was less than 50%. For comparison, in the Masovia macroregion with the lowest result in Poland, this percentage is 54.97%.
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