3.3.3. Specialist skills and employment

The measurement of specialist skills and employment is also based on three indicators. In this case, only one indicator is repeated from the DESI sub-dimension 2.b; female ICT specialists. Table 14 presents the values and positions of each of the indicators.

Table 14. Specialist skills and employment indicators comparative (%)
Table 14 Specialist skills and employment indicators comparative (%)
Source: EUSTAT, INE
Notas: 3.1 – STEM graduates and 3.3 – Unadjusted gender pay gap

In the field of education and labour market, the Basque Country shows very acceptable results. The first position regarding the proportion of women graduates in STEM, branches stands out, with a wide margin above the EU-28 average. The percentage of ICT specialists, however, is below the EU-28 average, farther away from the top positions. The indicator that measures the gender wage gap in terms of the difference between the average gross earnings of men and women as a percentage of the average gross earnings of men, places the Basque Country below the EU-28 average (see footnote) and in a more distant position.

  1. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.

  2. This indicator is inverse, that is, the lower, the better.