Women are still poorly represented in leading positions in science research and academia in Switzerland, the latest figures published by the European Commission show. For example, women account for only one in four Swiss professors.
The She Figures 2012 Gender in Research and Innovation report covers the evolution of women’s careers in the 27 European Union countries plus Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey.
One of the features of the European labour market in the past decade has been increasing female representation in third level education. This trend is also established in Switzerland, where in 2010 the number of male and female students entering tertiary education was more or less equal. More women graduated the same year with Bachelors or Masters – 52 per cent, against a European average of 59 per cent.
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