Brussels, 08/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - The latest estimates from Eurostat, published on Monday, have just confirmed the significant place occupied women in the agricultural world over the last twenty years: they represent 37% of the permanent agricultural workforce in the EU in 1997, or 14.7 million people. These women also represent a proportion of 37% in 1980 and have thus not lost their place to men through the enlargements of the Union. This figure exceeds 40% in Portugal (47%), in...