Female unemployment in Spain stands at 17% in 2018, the second highest rate in the EU-28

Greece ranks first with a rate of 24.2%. Spain is in second place with 17% female unemployment. Although the Spanish rate has fallen from the maximum of 26.7% corresponding to the 2013 fiscal year, we are still ten percentage points above the European average and, furthermore, the female unemployment rate exceeds the male unemployment level of 13.7% by more than three percentage points. Italy registers 11.8%, while the figures are already around 9% in Croatia and France. Cyprus, Portugal and Finland are also among the countries that exceed the EU average.

Sweden registers 6.3%, while Ireland, Luxembourg and Slovenia share 5.7%. In Austria, the female unemployment rate stands at 4.7% and falls to 4% in the United Kingdom. The lowest figures in the European Union correspond to Germany with 2.9% and the Czech Republic with 2.8%.