Eva Cyba studied sociology, philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna.
She habilitated in 1999 with the publication Konstellationen der Frauenbenachteiligung: Reproduction Processes of Gender Inequalities, which was published as a book in 2000.
[1] From 1983 to 1995 she was assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research in Vienna.
From 1985 to 2006 she was editor of the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS) She was an executive member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) from 1995 to 1997 and from 2003 to 2005.
In 1996, Eva Cyba received the Käthe-Leichter-Staatspreis, which is awarded "for outstanding achievements in the field of women's and gender studies in the social sciences, humanities and cultural sciences as well as for the women's movement and the establishment of gender equality.