3.2.3. Specialist skills and employment

This dimension includes three indicators: STEM graduates, ICT specialists and unadjusted gender pay gap. All three indicators have the same weight within the dimension.

In Graph 18, which represents the specialist skills and employment of women, the Basque Country is above the EU-28 average, with a value of 52.62% compared to the average of 43.94%. The position it occupies in the ranking is the seventh. Countries at the top of the ranking are Finland (61.07%), Sweden (59.16%), Slovenia (55.49%), France (55.45%), Ireland (54.64%) and the United Kingdom (54.24%). In this dimension, the Basque Country obtains its best position with respect to the whole of the three dimensions.