42 per cent of Cyprus’ engineers and scientists are women

Cyprus ranks slightly higher than the European Union average in terms of the proportion of women employed in the engineering and science sector, at 42.3 per cent, Eurostat said on Wednesday.

This compares to an EU-average of 40.5 per cent, with the highest share recorded in Latvia, 50.9 per cent and Denmark, 48.8 per cent.

With 30.7 per cent and 31.7 per cent respectively, Finland and Hungary had the lowest proportion of female engineers and scientists.

Overall, the...