Women still face a massive gender bias in science careers worldwide.
Women account for only 28 percent of engineering graduates and 40 percent of graduates in computer science and informatics.
Latin America did well, with female engineering graduates representing 41.7 percent in Cuba, 47.5 in Peru and 45.9 in Uruguay.
Women still face a massive gender bias in science careers worldwide, UNESCO reported on Wednesday, with several rich western nations way behind poorer ones in terms of gender equality.
Despite a shortage of skills in most fields of the current technology revolution, women account for only 28 percent of engineering graduates and 40 percent of graduates in computer science and informatics, according to advance excerpts from the organisation's Science Report to be fully published in April.
