Around 80-90% of care workers in the European Union are women.

Omissions

• No explicit recent (2024–2025) data point could be extracted in the two additional searches. The Eurostat page on nursing and caring professionals (data extracted July 2025, covering up to 2023) exists as a primary source but its specific gender breakdown was not returned in search snippets.
• The definition of 'care workers' matters: broader definitions (including personal care workers, nursing assistants, home-based carers) tend toward the upper end of the 80–90% range, while narrower definitions (nurses only) may yield slightly lower female shares — the MEP did not specify which definition was used.
• The MEP cited no source for the figure, making precise verification against a specific dataset impossible.

Sources

• PrimaryEurostat – Healthcare personnel statistics – nursing and caring professionalsData extracted in July 2025; reports 1,366 nurses per 100,000 inhabitants in the EU in 2023. Gender breakdown for nursing and caring professionals not visible in search snippet.
• SecondaryEuropean Parliamentary Research Service – Addressing the gender care gap (2025)Women more likely to be inactive (32% vs 11% for men in 2024) or working part-time (27% vs 7%) due to care responsibilities. Does not provide the specific share of women among care workers as a profession.