ICEF Monitor -Women increasingly outpacing men’s higher education participation in many world markets
22 Oct 2014
It used to be that men were overrepresented in higher education, but that trend has been changing for several years now. In the 1990s, in many parts of the world, female students began switching places with their male counterparts as the most dominant gender in terms of higher education participation.
In 2005, almost a decade ago, women represented 55% of the higher education student population in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) area – 1.2 women to every man – according to an OECD report published in 2008. The OECD then predicted that if the rate of women becoming more numerous than men in higher education continued:
“The inequalities to the detriment of men would be well entrenched at the aggregate level in 2025, with some 1.4 female students for every male. In some countries (Austria, Canada, Iceland, Norway, the United Kingdom) there could be almost twice as many female students as male.”
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