Table 425.

Percentage of bachelor's and higher level degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2009

	All fields1	Education	Humanities and arts	Health and welfare	Social sciences, business and law	Services	Engineering, manufactur- ing, and construction	Sciences, mathematics, and computer science					Agricul- ture
Country								Total	Life sciences	Physical sciences	Mathematics and statistics	Computer science
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
OECD average2	58.0	76.8	65.8	74.8	57.5	54.0	26.3	40.6	63.4	43.8	45.8	19.2	52.2
Australia3	56.2	74.0	64.1	75.6	53.4	54.0	24.8	37.1	55.2	49.5	37.7	19.6	57.2
Austria	54.2	80.3	65.6	67.1	57.6	38.7	25.5	33.3	68.5	31.4	37.7	17.5	62.2
Belgium	54.8	75.8	64.2	64.1	57.8	40.7	27.2	38.3	56.9	33.4	43.1	6.8	49.2
Canada3	59.8	76.8	64.6	83.2	57.9	60.4	23.5	49.3	62.7	45.0	42.4	17.8	57.7
Chile	57.5	74.3	61.3	70.4	52.6	45.5	27.5	35.8	58.4	40.6	47.3	22.1	46.4
Czech Republic	59.0	78.5	69.7	81.1	66.0	42.4	25.6	39.0	70.5	49.1	51.9	13.3	57.6
Denmark	60.2	72.5	64.9	80.1	52.4	24.2	31.8	37.2	62.5	38.2	42.6	20.2	73.6
Estonia	68.7	92.1	79.6	84.0	71.4	68.8	37.6	50.4	74.8	47.6	72.9	28.8	53.4
Finland	62.7	83.6	74.0	85.6	68.0	77.6	22.8	46.0	76.4	48.4	47.8	27.0	59.1
France	54.0	74.6	72.2	59.3	59.5	42.3	28.8	38.4	62.8	38.8	38.6	16.5	54.4
Germany	55.1	72.5	73.3	68.4	52.1	55.9	22.3	43.8	66.6	42.8	62.7	15.6	53.4
Hungary	65.0	78.7	74.7	80.4	70.4	59.9	24.2	35.0	66.2	44.8	45.6	19.5	50.3
Iceland	66.2	84.5	63.6	85.4	62.1	84.6	35.3	40.2	67.6	35.8	11.1	21.1	26.7
Ireland	59.5	74.2	65.5	83.1	55.1	54.3	21.2	44.1	57.6	41.5	46.7	23.4	51.3
Israel	57.4	83.3	60.2	77.8	55.1	76.1	24.2	46.8	63.0	45.1	44.1	24.6	56.4
Japan	41.1	59.3	68.1	56.6	34.4	90.6	10.8	25.2	—	—	—	—	38.7
Korea, Republic of	46.4	71.6	66.3	63.0	42.1	33.6	22.5	38.6	47.9	45.9	56.5	20.1	38.1
Mexico	54.8	72.0	58.9	64.1	58.8	59.7	28.3	42.8	58.5	55.6	42.8	36.4	34.8
Netherlands	56.5	81.1	56.7	75.2	52.4	53.4	18.7	21.1	58.0	25.3	31.1	10.2	51.7
New Zealand	61.0	81.2	65.0	79.5	57.5	52.2	29.8	44.4	60.0	43.2	48.7	23.0	47.8
Norway	61.3	74.5	58.7	82.4	55.8	41.9	24.5	36.5	70.5	42.2	33.6	13.1	59.5
Poland.	65.0	77.8	76.1	72.8	68.2	54.9	33.6	44.0	72.4	64.3	67.5	16.3	56.3
Portugal	59.1	85.3	60.9	78.5	63.4	46.3	29.4	55.9	70.4	52.8	69.7	26.9	55.1
Slovak Republic	64.2	78.2	66.7	85.9	68.6	45.0	31.1	42.1	68.4	50.7	56.0	10.6	42.8
Slovenia	65.3	84.2	75.6	72.9	68.3	57.7	31.0	45.5	71.2	45.6	51.1	10.4	59.8
Spain	59.9	78.7	64.5	75.9	60.7	58.2	33.9	41.5	67.3	53.4	53.1	19.7	50.2
Sweden	64.0	79.3	61.3	82.3	62.0	59.0	28.4	46.4	65.8	49.1	34.7	24.1	61.3
Switzerland	49.7	74.3	62.1	68.3	46.8	47.5	19.1	32.8	50.5	31.2	27.5	8.9	63.5
Turkey	46.0	54.6	60.1	62.6	42.4	32.6	26.7	44.3	61.9	41.7	46.4	23.3	34.9
United Kingdom	55.7	76.3	62.2	74.1	54.8	60.3	22.5	38.2	51.7	42.6	40.7	19.0	63.9
United States	57.6	77.7	58.9	79.3	54.2	55.3	21.4	43.5	58.6	39.3	41.9	20.8	49.7
Other reporting countries
Brazil	62.9	79.7	58.2	75.2	55.7	70.7	28.8	40.4	70.7	44.6	44.0	17.9	39.6
China	46.7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Indonesia3	47.2	49.6	47.0	47.1	47.9	#	44.9	47.1	#	47.1	47.0	47.1	47.1

—Not available.

#Rounds to zero.

1 May contain fields not shown in this table.

2 Refers to the mean of the data values for all reporting OECD countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally.

3 Data are for 2008 instead of 2009.

NOTE: Data in this table refer to degrees classified by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) level 5A (first and second award) or level 6. ISCED 5A, first award, corresponds to the bachelor's degree in the United States; ISCED 5A, second award, corresponds to master's and first-professional degrees in the United States; and ISCED 6 corresponds to doctor's degrees. Data for Greece, Italy, and Luxembourg are not available.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, 2011. (This table was prepared July 2011.)