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The number of female engineers and scientists is increasing in European countries

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Il Sole 24 Ore

EU sees rising female representation in science/engineering, but gaps persist across countries and sectors.

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The number of women working as scientists and engineers in the EU has more than doubled over the last 16 years, reaching 7.9 million in 2024, though they still represent 40.5% of the workforce across all economic activities. While the proportion was higher in high-knowledge service sectors (45.1% and 45.0% respectively), it was significantly lower in manufacturing (22.4%) and other activities (23.6%). Latvia reported the highest percentage of women scientists and engineers in 2024 at 50.9%, while Finland had the lowest at 30.7%. Spain showed high representation in four regions exceeding 50%. Italy’s percentage of women in the field is below 40%, with varying percentages across different regions.

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PULSE – Europe beyond the beat is an initiative coordinated by OBCT which has been promoting intense journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. The main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

PULSE’s offering also includes the distribution of free content to third-party outlets and the animation of four thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, Europe and other global powers, the green transition, or media and information society.

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved, which produces new journalistic content on European issues in a collaborative way on a daily basis, coming in many languages. A further layer of associated partners and journalists enriches PULSE’s editorial output, which amounts to over a thousand publications per year.