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Germany: Engineering Nation, Gender Gap Nation
Germany runs on engineers — but only 16% of them are women. In the land of Industrie 4.0, the gender ratio is stuck in 1.0.
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Germany's proportion of women in engineering sits around 16% — one of the lowest in the developed world. The gap is partly structural: Germany's vocational training system routes students into career tracks early, and gender sorting happens at that stage. A 15-year-old girl choosing between academic and vocational paths is making a STEM decision without framing it as one.
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