Women now make up 53% of science and technology workers in the European Union, up 0.5 percentage points from 2024. In 2025, 81.6 million people aged 15‑74 were employed in science and technology, a 1.8 % increase over 2024 and a 25.3 % rise over the past decade. Of those, 42.8 million (52.5 %) were women, mainly in service activities. The share of women in science and technology increased by 2.3 % from 2024 and by 27.9 % from 2015, adding more than 9.3 million women to the sector in ten years. Women remain underrepresented among scientists and engineers, who make up 24.8 % of the sector; in 2025 they accounted for 40.8 % of that group, 8.2 million women.
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