64% OF PROFESSIONALS ARE WOMEN IN SRI LANKA
Image: Sri Lanka Nurses, courtesy of News.lk.
By Paneetha Ameresekere.-28/12/2016
Though Sri Lanka has a poor women’s labour force participation rate (LFPR), women comprised a massive 63. 65 per cent of all professionals, and men, a miserly 36.35 per cent, Census and Statistics Department’s (CSD’s) second quarter (2Q) 2016 Labour Survey report showed. Nonetheless, as at end 2015, this number for women was still higher, with 65.8 per cent of all employed professionals in Sri Lanka comprised of women, the CSD said.
