Romania, among the countries with the highest percentage of women working in IT
Romania’s gender pay gap for women in tech has improved by 3% from 2010 to 2015, reveals the latest 2018 Women in Tech Index released by the leading technology career platform Honeypot the past days. Moreover, it seems that Romania has among the highest percentages of women working in the IT sector.
The study reveals that Portugal, The United States and Latvia offer the best opportunities for women in tech, with an industry gender pay gap around 6-7% less than the overall average wage gap in each country.
The United States offers the highest wages to women working in tech, at EUR 70.153 per annum, followed by Ireland (EUR 49.052) and Switzerland (EUR 47.814).
At 30%, Bulgaria has the highest percentage of women working in tech, followed by Australia with 28% and Romania at 26%. The results of the index provide a view on gender-based employment inequalities both at large and in the technology sector. In an effort to position themselves as industry experts, the developer-focused career platform decided to research the role that gender parity plays in the technology landscape by comparing the proportion of female employees, gender wage gap and opportunities for women in the IT field, among other criteria. The study focuses on 41 countries in the OECD and EU, and offers comparable data relating to both the tech industry and the wage gap.
According to the results for the workforce in the tech industry in Romania and the figures for the female workforce in this field, there were 42.87% women in overall workforce, while the gender pay gap stood at 5.80%. There is a percentage of 26.30% of women working in tech, with the average wage in the IT industry mounting to EUR 23,670 per year and the tech average wage for women estimated to EUR 19,149 per year.The gender pay gap in tech is 19.10% in Romania, with a difference of overall & tech gender pay gap of -13.30%.There was an 8.80% gender pay gap in Romania in 2010 and -3% in terms of a comparison of the gender pay gap from 2010 to 2015.
Overall in the world, the index reports that the United States has the highest number of women in the labour force, with 74.43 million. Malta has the least number of women in their workforce, at 80,000. Lithuania has the highest percentage of female workforce, at 51.17%, one of only two (alongside Latvia at 50.25%) countries in the index that have a higher percentage of women than men in their workforce. Turkey has the smallest percentage of female workforce, at 31.55%. Latvia has the highest percentage of women legislators, senior officials and managers at 44.4%, while South Korea has the least with 10.7%.
Sweden has the highest percentage of women in parliament positions, at 44.5%, while Japan has the least, at 9.9%. Finland has the highest percentage of women in ministerial positions at 62.5%. Notably, France is the only country with 50% of its ministerial cabinet made up of women.
Hungary and the Slovak Republic both have zero women in ministerial positions. Luxembourg has the highest overall wage for women, at EUR 47.945 per annum, while Bulgaria has the lowest, at EUR 9.945.
The overall gender pay gap is largest in South Korea, at 37.18% and joint lowest in Italy and Luxembourg, at 5.5%.
The United States has the most employees working in the tech industry, around 6 million, while Malta and Iceland have the least, at around 7,000.
6.04% of Finland’s labour force is in the technology industry, the highest in the index. 0.8% of Turkey’s labour force works in tech, the lowest in the index.
The United States has the most women working in the tech industry, at just under 1.5 million. Malta has the least, with 800 women working in tech.
Bulgaria has the highest percentage of women working in tech, at 30.28%. The Slovak Republic has the smallest percentage of women working in tech, at 9.29%. Israel has the largest difference between the percentage of overall women working, and the percentage of women working in tech, at -36.6%, while Romania has the smallest difference, at -16.57%.
Turkey has the highest percentage of female STEM graduates, at 37.11%, while Japan has the least, at 15.25%.
The United States offers the highest wage both overall in tech and for women in tech, at EUR 79.595 and EUR 70.153 respectively. Mexico offers the lowest wages in tech, both overall and for women, at EUR 15.788 and EUR 12.520 respectively. Turkey has the lowest gender pay gap in the tech industry, at 8.42%. South Korea has the highest, at 41.17%. Portugal has the highest positive difference in percentage of tech pay gap as compared to overall wage gap, at 7.26%. Poland has the highest negative difference in percentage of tech pay gap as compared to overall wage gap, at -17.8%. Switzerland has the best Gender Inequality Score, at 0.04, while Mexico has the worst, at 0.345. South Korea had the highest overall gender pay gap in 2010, at 39.61%. Slovenia had the lowest overall gender pay gap in 2010, at 0.95%.
“Gender parity in the workplace is not just an ethical or moral issue, but also an economic one: McKinsey found that $12 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 by advancing women’s equality. As tech recruitment specialists, we are often confronted with the gender imbalances of the industry, which are fully exposed in this study,” says Emma Tracey, Co-Founder at Honeypot.
“The results reveal the countries which have the most to offer women looking to progress in the tech industry, with Portugal, The United States and Latvia highlighted as the top three nations that have taken positive steps towards gender parity in the technology field in terms of fairer wages. However, with the proportion of female tech workers remaining under 30% across the board, we hope that this study will enrich the conversation concerning equality in this industry and inspire more women to seek out opportunities in tech,” Tracey concludes.
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