The data show that 25% of scientists and engineers in Luxembourg are women, a figure which places us at the bottom of the list of EU countries. The overall average in the union is 41% — a full 16 percentage points above Luxembourg and Hungary.
At the top of the list are Lithuania with 57%, followed by Bulgaria (53%), Latvia (53%), Portugal (51%), and Denmark (50%).
The data used is from 2017, and the only previous data available in the set is from 2016, when Luxembourg’s figure stood at 24.78% (compared to a more precise figure of 25.49% in 2017).
Eurostat: Women in science and technology
Only 19% of managerial roles in Luxembourg filled by women
Women are better represented in certain decision-making areas
Opinion: Female leadership, back to the basics (pt.1)
Luxembourg has the EU’s highest proportion of PhD students, and highly educated workforce
