Bulgaria is the country in the EU with the largest share of women among employed ICT specialists - 28.2%, according to new Eurostat data. After us on this indicator are Greece - 26.5% and Romania (26.2%). The lowest share of women in the ICT sector is in Hungary (12.3 percent), Malta (11 percent) and the Czech Republic (10.3 percent). The majority of ICT professionals in the EU are men. Women in this profession are under one-fifth (18.5 percent). However, since 2011, the growth rate for women has been higher, so that the gender gap has narrowed by 3 percentage points over the last decade. In total, ICT specialists are less than 10 percent of the employed in the member countries of the union. Their share is highest in Finland (7.6 percent) and Sweden (7.5 percent). Relatively high - over 5 percent - is in Estonia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Ireland and Denmark. Bulgaria is among the countries with the lowest share. Our country and Lithuania report 3.3 percent each. The shares of ICT specialists are lower only in Greece (2 percent), Romania (2.4 percent), Cyprus (3.1 percent). Around 8 million people in the EU worked in 2020 as information and communication technology (ICT) professionals, or 4.3 percent of the Union's total workforce. The share has increased by 0.4 percentage points compared to 2019, when this type of specialized staff was 3.9 percent, according to Eurostat.
Source: manager.bg
