Baerbock warns against clichés in the job: “They are being overtaken by many countries”. In German IT and telecommunications companies, an average of 15 percent of employees are women.

German women are less likely to study computer science than international students. “We see that German girls don’t like studying computer science as much as our many international students, for example,” says Katharina Zweig, professor at the Rhineland Computer Science Department -Palatinate Technical University.