Armenia along with UK and Azerbaijan has the lowest ratio in terms of employing female professional judges. Slightly fewer than 23% of all judges in Armenia are women, and just 9% in Azerbaijan.

According to the recent report published by the Council of Europe, only Azerbaijan and Armenia employ fewer female professional judges than the United Kingdom, the Gurdian writes.

Only 23% of judges in England and Wales and 21% of judges in Scotland are women.

Women predominate in Slovenia where they make 78% of all judges, in Greece – 65% and in France – 64%.