High-tech jobs: These regions are hiring the most women in the EU

Two Hungarian regions and one Italian top female employment in high-tech jobs across the EU.

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00:00How big is the gender gap in high-tech jobs across Europe?

00:10High-tech professionals represent over 5% of the EU's workforce, with more than 10 million people.

00:19Gender representation in this sector, however, remains uneven,

00:23with women accounting for less than a third of high-tech jobs in 2023,

00:29a slight decrease from 2022.

00:32There is only one place in Europe where women outnumber men.

00:37It's the Hungarian region of Nyugat-Dunantul.

00:41The next highest shares of female employment were in the Italian region of Marche

00:47and in another Hungarian region, Eszak-Majarország.

00:52The lowest rate of women across all the European regions was reported in Thessalia, Greece.

01:00In 2023, Bavaria emerged as the European region with the most high-tech professionals in general,

01:08followed by the Paris region, Ile-de-France, and two more German regions,

01:14Nord-Rhin-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, Peloponnesus in Greece,

01:19Bolzano in Italy and the Greek island of Crete reported the lowest numbers in the EU, all below 5,000.