DIGITAL GENDER GAP IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ICT EMPLOYMENT

This paper aims to explore the correlation between ICT educated employed women and selected socio-economic and educational indicators in EU-27 leading towards a deeper understanding of the digital gender gap throughout wide national varieties. The interconnection between the share of ICT educated women employment ratio and selected socio-economic and educational indicators for overall, former socialist and all other EU-27 countries has been observed to determine the cross-cultural varieties in EU-27, reveal positive practices, and enable their wider adoption working towards better gender-balanced ICT initiatives throughout the whole EU-27. The research conducted found both positive and negative correlation varieties in grouped countries suggesting explanatory solutions for strengthening gender-balanced policies of EU27 need to address and respect cross-cultural differences and carefully plan joint activities in making progress towards overall gender equality.