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There are considerable differences between EU countries .
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Gender equality and entrepreneurship

In 2014 there were around 10.3 million female entrepreneurs working throughout the European Union.
This may sound impressive, but you should consider that women make up about one-third of all
self-employed Europeans, and less than 30 percent of startup entrepreneurs – despite comprising more
than half (52 percent) of total population, which sits at over 500 million. Worse yet, global gender
parity is diminishing for the first time since the World Economic Forum began measuring it in 2006.
Though Western Europe has reduced the gender gap to 25 percent, an average disparity of 32 percent
worldwide remains to be closed. In countries like Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, and Spain, where female
employment rates are below 60 percent, progress is especially slow.

1 https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/gender-equality/equal-pay/gender-pay-gap-situation-eu_en