According to Eurostat, in 2022 Cyprus had the highest proportion of women enrolled in postgraduate studies and the second highest proportion of women enrolled in doctoral studies in the European Union.

Of the 9,359 undergraduates in Cyprus in 2022, 6,948 were women, accounting for 74.2% of the total, the highest percentage among EU member states. This is followed by Poland with 67.3% and Lithuania with 66.1%.

At the EU level, 58.6% of all graduate students were women: 905,678 women out of 1.5 million students. Women made up the majority of postgraduate studies in all EU countries except Luxembourg, where the gender distribution was almost equal (49.8%).

As for doctoral studies, 83 out of 143 candidates for a PhD degree in Cyprus were women, which is 58% — the second largest proportion after Latvia (59.6%) and above Lithuania (57.4%). In the EU, the average proportion of women in doctoral programs was 48.5%, with 48,079 female PhD candidates out of 99,204 students.

Even the lowest rates in the EU remained relatively high: in Luxembourg — 42.3%, in Austria — 43.3%, in the Czech Republic — 44.1%.

Between 2013 and 2022, the proportion of women in postgraduate education programs in the EU decreased slightly by 0.4 percentage points due to declines in 12 countries. The decrease ranged from -0.1 percentage points in Slovenia to -3.6 percentage points in Hungary. Conversely, the proportion of women in doctoral programs increased by one percentage point, with an increase recorded in 19 EU countries. Cyprus recorded the largest increase: from 2013 to 2022, it was 8 percentage points.

In 2022, women made up the majority of students in education-related fields: 75.6% of graduate students and 66.9% of doctoral students. After postgraduate studies, the largest proportion of female students were in general programs (73.7%), in the fields of arts and humanities (69.5%) and social sciences and journalism (68.7%).

As for doctoral research, the second largest area for women after education was health and social security (60.9%), followed by agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary medicine (57.5%), social sciences and journalism (57.3%), as well as arts and humanities (53.3%).

Women were still underrepresented in the field of information and communication technology, accounting for only 26.2% of graduate students and 22.6% of doctoral students in this field. They were also a minority in engineering, manufacturing, and construction, accounting for 33.4% of graduate students and 32.7% of doctoral students.

A source: cyprus-mail.com

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