Fig. 2

Gender balance in the Erasmus mobility over selected years. The blue bars indicate the number of female Erasmus students, the orange bars indicate the number of male Erasmus students (both to be read on the left vertical axis). The green indicator represents the value of the female over male (F/M) ratio (right vertical axis). The horizontal line positioned at the ordinate value of 1 on the right vertical axis corresponds to F/M=1. Information shown is based on the micro-data available on the EU Open Data Portal for the period 2008–2013 and on extrapolation from the Erasmus annual reports (European Commission 2000) for the other years represented (2007 and 2015). Information on gender participation in 2014 could not be retrieved