1. The national context

• 1.1 Economic growth and expenditure on R&D
• 1.2 Labour market trends
• 1.3 Labour market situation of women in ICT
• 1.4 Job-to job mobility

2. Analysis of the questionnaire

• 2.1 Main characteristics of the sample
• 2.1.1 Demographic characteristics
• 2.1.2 Labour market characteristics
• 2.2 Analysis of the issues in the survey questionnaire
• 2.2.1 Reaction to the opening statement
• 2.2.2 The past
• 2.2.3 The entry into the ICT sector
• 2.2.4 The present ICT job
• 2.2.5 The future: job to job mobility
• 2.2.6 The gender issue

3. Final considerations, conclusions and recommendations

4. Annex The questionnaire

Country report: Spain

1.3 LABOUR MARKET SITUATION OF WOMEN IN ICT

Turning now to the specific situation of women in ICT related sectors and occupations, according to figures from the publication She Figures 2006 (Figures and indicators on women and science) by the European Commission, across the EU25 in 2003 the proportion of women PhD (ISCED6) graduates was 43%. This proportion reached 45% for Spain. Between 1999 and 2003, the growth rate of PhD graduates was higher for women than for men in Spain.

According to OECD data¹ the share of women in ICT-using occupations in 2004 is of 38% in Spain. In this case we find that most women in occupations using ICTs are in the office or clerical type occupations. In the case of Spain this reaches around 62%. This means that in the ICT specialist category there are relatively fewer women than men: 11% in Spain. According to the She figures 2006 database, in 2004 the proportion of women engineers and scientists in the total labour force in the EU25 is only 1.4% while in Spain the figure rises to 1.9%. The proportion of women within ITC specialist fields between 1998 and 2004 is increasing slightly in the case of Spain². This can be linked to declining number of women in ICT related educational fields.