Statistics concerning #kvennastarf

Statistics concerning #kvennastarf were last updated February 26 2025.

 

 

Plumbing
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380 students currently study plumbing, 19 of them are women.

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Women

In 1990 the first woman completed a journeyman’s exam in plumbing. 1407 people in total have completed the exam, 9 of them are women.

Auto mechanics
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168 men are currently enrolled in studies in auto mechanics in Borgarholtsskóli and VMA (Akureyri Comprehensive College), but only 43 women.

%

Women

2486 people have completed a journeyman’s exam in auto mechanics in Iceland, 31 of them are women.

Programming
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 There are 303 students in the Computer Study Programme in Tækniskólinn (Technical College Reykjavik) and Fjölbrautaskóli Suðurnesja (Suðurnes Comprehensive College), the emphasis is on programming and computer science.

36 of the students are girls.

%

Women

Women are a minority of programming students and programmers today.

Marine engineering

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In the years 1916 to 2025, 3010 men graduated with a diploma in the highest level of marine engineering studies from the Marine Engineering College, which is Tækniskólinn (Technical College Reykjavik) today. Only 20 women have graduated with the same diploma. 

%

Women

%

Men

The first woman to become a marine engineer attended the school in 1974, in that year the law was changed in Iceland, giving women the right to attend studies in marine engineering. Previously women were not allowed to study marine engineering.

A few women had worked as unskilled marine engineers before this, but for lower pay than skilled workers.

Sound
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38 students are registered in the audio engineering programme run jointly by Technical College and Studio Syrland. 4 of them are women.

%

Women

There is a shortage of women in audio engineering in the music industry.

Metal technology

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This is the gender ratio of students who have completed a journeyman’s exam in various metal technologies through the years: 


Tin construction

Women

Men

Metal turning

Women

Men

Steel construction

Women

Men

Industrial mechanics

Women

Men

Navigation

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Many Icelandic women have held the position of foreman on ships through the ages and a few have been registered as captains of large ships. It wasn’t until the eighties that the first woman completed an education in navigation and today 15 women have completed studies at the School of Navigation.

137 students are registered in day-school in the navigation programme today. 7 of them are women.

 

%

Women

137 students are registered in day-school in the navigation programme today. 7 of them are women.

Cookery

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In the spring semester of 2025, 176 students were enrolled in the cookery programmes at MK and VMA. Of them 36 are women.

%

Women

%

Men

To date 1561 men have graduated with a journeyman’s exam in cookery in Iceland but only 234 women.

 

Electrics

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To date 5190 people have completed a journeyman’s exam in electrotechnics in Iceland. 122 of them are women.

In electronics 1189 people have graduated. 32 are women.

Electrotechnics

%

Women

%

Men

Electronics

%

Women

%

Men

Carpentry

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The total number of students who have completed a journeyman’s exam in carpentry and furniture-making in Iceland:

Women

Men

Furniture-making

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In the spring semester of 2025, 27 students were enrolled in studies in Furniture-making in Tækniskólinn. 7 of the students are girls.

Women

Men

All statistics are based on data from the Ministry of Education and Children, Statistics Iceland, the Directorate of Equality Iceland, student registers of technical and vocational colleges and employee records of companies, a WAI survey (Women in Aviation International) as well as information from domestic and foreign workplace research.

Statistics concerning #womenswork were last updated 30th September 2022.

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