The importance of celebrating this day and giving visibility to women in the world of engineering is because women are still underrepresented. The European Commission produces an annual report, She Figure 2021, to monitor progress on gender equality in research and innovation.
In 2021, it confirms that women still represent less than a quarter of ICT graduates, at 22%, and account for only a third of researchers (33%).
They also remain less likely to be employed as scientists and engineers (41%). They are also found to be underrepresented according to the number of self-employed in science, engineering and ICT, with only 25% of women.
Although at the undergraduate level women outnumber men as students, with the above data we can confirm that at the level of professional fields there is still a gap and therefore shows that we need to do more to achieve gender equality.