Table 603.60.

Percentage of postsecondary degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2014

Country	All fields1	Education		Humanities and arts	Health and welfare	Social sciences, business, and law		Personal, transport, environmental protection, and security services	Engineering, manufacturing, and construction	Sciences, mathematics, and computer science	Agricul-ture and veterinary
1	2	3		4	5	6		7	8	9	10
OECD average2	57.2	78.1		65.9	77.0	59.2		51.2	25.2	39.2	51.6
Australia	56.4	75.2		62.4	77.7	56.3		57.9	22.6	37.0	51.2
Austria	56.7	83.4		69.9	71.4	59.6		79.3	21.8	33.6	52.5
Belgium3	—	78.9		61.6	76.7	58.6		51.7	22.4	29.4	54.1
Canada3	—	75.2		63.1	84.4	58.8		50.6	18.7	45.2	57.8
Chile	57.0	76.7		55.3	77.2	57.8		47.5	17.3	21.3	46.8
Czech Republic	62.9	83.7		70.5	82.6	67.1		51.6	28.1	38.6	59.3
Denmark	58.1	70.4		67.8	78.8	55.3		28.1	36.1	35.9	68.6
Estonia	—	92.4		74.4	89.5	74.2		47.9	32.3	46.0	58.3
Finland	57.5	82.4		73.6	84.8	64.3		65.8	21.5	42.6	59.6
France	—	75.4		69.5	74.1	60.6		52.4	25.6	38.2	42.6
Germany	51.1	76.8		70.1	70.0	56.0		49.3	19.3	38.3	41.5
Greece	—	76.4		73.3	72.3	61.5		50.2	31.8	46.2	51.3
Hungary	62.0	83.8		67.2	76.7	68.9		61.0	25.0	37.0	46.7
Iceland3	—	78.3		65.4	85.6	63.1		63.0	33.5	41.3	73.2
Ireland	—	71.4		60.3	76.0	53.5		36.5	15.0	36.5	22.8
Italy	59.8	89.9		72.1	68.2	58.7		47.4	34.0	53.1	49.2
Japan	51.1	71.6		68.8	63.6	39.2		76.4	12.7	25.2	39.6
Korea, Republic of	—	76.9		67.9	72.4	49.8		48.8	24.4	39.3	41.0
Latvia	64.3	90.6		79.3	87.8	70.5		54.7	28.1	38.6	38.9
Luxembourg	55.9	62.0		66.7	78.8	54.0		—	25.2	29.2	—
Mexico	52.4	72.0		58.4	66.3	58.9		28.7	27.9	46.2	36.3
Netherlands	56.3	78.8		57.6	74.3	53.8		54.3	23.1	27.4	54.6
New Zealand	56.4	81.5		64.1	79.1	56.3		51.8	25.8	38.6	65.6
Norway	59.1	74.4		61.5	83.0	58.7		37.5	19.3	33.1	61.1
Poland	—	85.3	4	75.7	73.3	69.4	4	55.1	38.6	47.7	54.8
Portugal	59.2	79.4		60.6	79.0	61.8		47.1	32.6	56.9	60.2
Slovak Republic	63.8	77.8		67.4	80.4	68.2		41.8	31.6	45.7	51.9
Slovenia	59.3	88.7		69.4	78.8	69.0		48.6	24.2	41.5	56.2
Spain	54.8	78.4		59.4	73.9	59.5		44.8	25.3	35.4	45.3
Sweden	62.3	81.1		62.5	81.5	63.2		66.1	30.6	40.0	66.8
Switzerland	49.3	69.3		61.2	74.2	48.1		42.1	14.7	32.2	34.8
Turkey	49.7	64.0		62.3	67.0	48.0		37.6	27.0	50.0	43.6
United Kingdom	56.0	76.7		62.8	77.1	53.2		62.1	22.4	46.1	64.8
United States	58.2	78.0		59.8	81.2	55.8		53.1	19.3	40.3	50.6
Other reporting countries
Brazil	—	76.4		57.0	76.5	58.6		61.7	33.2	34.7	45.6
Colombia	—	67.6		50.8	72.3	61.7		45.6	32.2	40.8	41.9
Costa Rica	—	74.3		55.8	76.9	62.6		59.7	34.4	33.5	43.0
Indonesia	52.2	62.4		56.5	71.6	47.9		35.9	34.7	38.9	38.1
Lithuania	62.0	80.4		73.1	82.5	71.6		48.0	22.7	45.0	49.9
Russian Federation	57.4	57.5		50.2	38.7	56.3		24.1	19.2	27.9	36.8

—Not available.

1 Includes degrees in unknown or unspecified fields of study.

2 Refers to the mean of the data values for all reporting Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally.

3 Data are for 2013 instead of 2014.

4 Doctoral degrees in education are not included in the education column, but instead are included with social sciences, business, and law.

NOTE: All data in this table were calculated using International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011. The data refer to total tertiary degrees, which correspond to degrees at the associate’s level and above in the United States. Includes degrees at ISCED 2011 level 5 (corresponding to the 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). Israel is omitted from this table because there are no data available.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Online Education Database, retrieved April 18,2017, from http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared April 2017.)