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Digital Gender Gap in EU-27 ICT Employment During COVID-19 Impact

This paper focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ICT sector em-ployment through the prism of digital gender gap divide change in 2020 as a comparative analysis of EU-27 country's performance. The paper aims to exam-ine the share of employed women and men ICT professionals in total employ-ment in the ICT sector, aged 15 to 74, from 2011 to 2020 in the EU-27, high-lighting annual national disparities in the 2020 pandemic year. The standard devi-ations (Z-score) and percentage deviations of the European Union countries from the EU-27 average in 2020 were calculated. The data used for the analysis have been obtained from Eurostat (2021): Employed ICT specialists by sex. The analysis results show that in the pandemic 2020, the deviation of women's employment in the ICT sector of the EU-27 from the EU-27 average ranges from 2.4 σ to -1.6 σ. The deviation of employed men in the ICT sector from the EU-27 average is in the same range but opposite. Peak differences and their causes have been explained. Conclusively, limitations and further research orientations within the wider topic frame are elaborated.

Digital gender gap, ICT employment, European Union, COVID-19

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