Women totalled almost a third of STEM graduates in 2021

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the representation of women in STEM education fields: natural sciences, mathematics and statistics, information and communication technologies, engineering, manufacturing and construction. Women are largely underrepresented in these fields. 

In 2021, in the EU, women tertiary education graduates (International Standard Classification of Education - ISCED levels 5-8), in STEM fields, accounted for 32.8% of the total graduates, +0.3 percentage points (pp) when compared with 2020 (32.5%). 

The highest shares of women tertiary education graduates in STEM in 2021 were recorded in Romania (42.5%), Poland (41.5%), Greece (40.9%) and Italy (39.0%). 

Source dataset: tps00217

At the other end of the scale, the lowest shares were reported in Belgium (27.4%), Spain and Germany (both 27.7%) and Austria (28.0%).