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Table 603.60.Percentage of postsecondary degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2021
Country All fields1 Education Arts and humanities Social sciences, journalism, and information Business, adminis-
tration, and law		 Natural sciences, mathematics, and statistics Information and communication technologies Engineering, manufactur-
ing, and construction		 Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and veterinary Health and welfare Services2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
   OECD average3 58.1 78.9 64.8 67.3 57.1 53.6 22.6 27.8 55.3 77.1 52.2
Australia 56.9 78.6 65.3 67.8 52.4 51.5 27.6 25.6 62.1 75.7 58.6
Austria 55.3 79.9 68.1 68.4 56.7 49.4 17.4 24.3 48.1 70.5 78.5
Belgium 59.6 73.9 62.6 72.6 54.7 44.0 12.8 25.2 64.3 75.0 52.7
Canada 56.5 78.1 62.0 69.7 53.9 57.2 25.0 23.1 60.1 83.6 53.3
Chile 58.3 83.8 54.2 64.8 57.5 40.1 12.3 19.1 54.2 78.6 51.4

Colombia 		56.6 65.2 52.9 72.2 62.3 58.5 23.0 35.7 48.5 70.0 49.3
Costa Rica 62.8 73.0 57.4 68.4 63.3 56.5 22.3 38.0 48.9 77.8 64.4
Czech Republic 60.5 83.3 69.5 65.9 61.9 60.9 18.6 33.4 62.7 79.8 46.1
Denmark 56.2 70.5 66.7 63.4 50.7 54.5 26.0 28.7 64.5 77.1 47.8
Estonia 62.0 93.2 68.9 68.8 65.8 65.1 31.2 30.5 65.3 85.8 44.3

Finland 		60.7 83.9 73.7 75.4 60.0 58.7 25.3 25.0 61.1 83.8 57.8
France 55.8 76.4 69.4 69.5 58.7 51.7 19.3 23.6 43.1 74.4 53.3
Germany 51.1 80.7 71.0 68.5 54.3 49.7 22.0 21.1 41.2 71.0 51.2
Greece 59.2 85.7 71.9 65.0 60.1 53.1 34.8 34.5 49.3 71.4 47.2
Hungary 59.3 84.5 67.5 67.8 62.7 50.6 17.2 28.3 49.0 72.7 57.2

Iceland 		68.0 81.3 64.4 73.1 63.6 57.4 30.8 41.3 68.1 84.6 66.1
Ireland 55.3 76.6 62.8 65.1 52.1 52.0 28.5 23.5 44.4 77.9 48.2
Israel 60.6 84.3 62.7 66.3 59.0 53.2 35.8 26.8 50.2 79.2 ---
Italy 57.7 86.7 70.4 63.3 51.6 58.0 18.6 30.8 49.8 67.2 39.8
Japan 49.9 70.5 67.1 48.4 38.0 27.1 --- 15.9 42.8 66.9 76.5

Korea, Republic of 		51.4 77.8 65.5 61.3 50.9 48.7 27.3 21.6 45.1 70.3 52.1
Latvia 64.8 91.3 76.9 75.7 65.7 62.5 22.6 27.5 60.5 84.5 46.8
Lithuania 61.6 82.7 73.4 74.7 65.1 61.1 13.7 26.7 57.2 84.0 37.1
Luxembourg 53.8 73.7 58.8 66.7 52.3 43.2 24.7 27.7 50.0 86.3 42.1
Mexico 55.6 74.4 59.0 61.7 58.9 52.7 27.6 31.5 43.0 68.4 52.4

Netherlands 		56.1 75.4 57.6 69.3 48.7 46.4 19.2 26.0 54.8 76.9 52.4
New Zealand 61.7 81.5 63.7 69.6 57.0 59.7 26.1 33.1 70.8 81.2 52.8
Norway 56.9 73.0 59.2 61.2 53.9 48.9 21.8 24.7 64.5 81.9 39.6
Poland 64.9 87.1 73.2 70.6 65.7 69.6 21.5 40.7 56.9 75.9 59.1
Portugal 58.5 77.5 62.9 70.8 61.8 61.0 18.8 32.6 60.0 79.4 44.2

Slovak Republic 		61.4 80.5 69.2 72.5 64.1 66.9 15.4 25.5 61.7 75.9 40.8
Slovenia 60.3 88.1 66.4 70.4 65.0 59.5 17.0 25.8 65.2 80.0 60.5
Spain 56.5 75.2 57.9 66.4 56.3 48.8 12.8 25.5 49.5 74.7 46.1
Sweden 61.6 80.0 61.4 67.4 62.9 54.4 32.8 34.1 69.5 80.3 56.2
Switzerland 49.6 67.8 60.8 66.4 47.3 43.5 13.2 17.9 37.3 73.3 42.8

Türkiye 		52.5 64.7 60.4 53.5 48.2 56.0 25.6 28.8 42.3 76.3 40.8
United Kingdom 58.6 76.6 63.5 67.9 54.9 47.1 23.2 27.0 72.6 77.4 69.7
United States 60.1 80.3 62.4 67.4 50.8 57.6 26.2 24.0 62.2 79.5 50.5

Other reporting countries
  Brazil  60.7 77.7 56.4 70.6 56.7 52.0 14.9 36.6 52.7 73.1 55.5
  Bulgaria 61.4 84.8 68.0 67.7 67.1 69.6 36.7 28.5 44.1 70.0 42.4
  Croatia 60.9 87.2 67.8 74.1 69.5 64.8 23.7 33.8 62.4 78.5 46.2
  Romania 59.3 88.4 66.9 76.1 64.7 68.5 35.0 38.6 43.2 72.6 32.1
---Not available.
1Includes degrees in unknown fields of study.
2Includes personal, hygiene and occupational health, security, transport, and other services.
3The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average refers to the mean of data values for all reporting OECD countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally.
NOTE: All data in this table refer to total postsecondary degrees, as calculated using International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011. Total postsecondary degrees correspond to degrees at the associate's level and above in the United States. They include degrees at ISCED 2011 level 5 (corresponding to an associate's degree in the United States), level 6 (bachelor's or equivalent degree), level 7 (master's or equivalent degree), and level 8 (doctoral or equivalent degree). Degree fields were classified using ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013). Data are collected for the school year ending in the reported year for each country. For example, for reported year 2021, the reference period is school year 2020-2021 for Northern Hemisphere countries and 2021 for Southern Hemisphere countries. For more information on the school year reported by OECD countries, see Annex Table X1.3 here: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e13bef63-en/1/3/6/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/e13bef63-en&_csp_=a4f4b3d408c9dd70d167f10de61b8717&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book#tablegrp-d1e34329-d661fe93c8.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Online Education Database, retrieved September 28, 2023, from https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared September 2023.)

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