The number of women working in the Armed Forces of Armenia has increased by about three times, over the course of the past ten years.
Head of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Armenia Country Office, Garik Hayrapetyan, stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Monday.
He presented the data of a new study on discrimination against women, and which the UNFPA conducted in the country, from 2015 to 2016.
“In 2001, the number of women in the [Armenian] Armed Forces was 3.3 percent, [but] in 2011—already 8.8 percent,” Hayrapetyan stated. “We haven’t researched this fact is in depth, however, in my opinion, this is due to the fact that the number of cadets [in Armenia] is increasing year by year.”
In the UNFPA official’s words, the salaries are relatively high in the Armenian Armed Forces, and this is also a reason why numerous women in Armenia prefer this line of work.
