Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2010, Ireland's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation decreased by 13.7% compared to 2009, reaching 26.4.

Ireland accounts for 66.2% of the EU-27 total of 39.9.

Ireland ranks 19th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 56.9% (from 61.2 in 2005).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_lm230, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.