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| Table 603.60. | Percentage of postsecondary degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2016 |
| 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 | 57.7 | 79.6 | 65.8 | 66.8 | 57.0 | 53.3 | 20.2 | 25.8 | 50.7 | 76.2 | 49.8 |
| Australia | 57.4 | 78.3 | 63.9 | 66.5 | 52.5 | 50.1 | 21.0 | 22.4 | 57.8 | 74.7 | 51.1 |
| Austria | 54.9 | 82.2 | 68.6 | 64.3 | 57.0 | 49.6 | 14.3 | 21.5 | 46.9 | 69.3 | 80.4 |
| Belgium | 59.6 | 78.7 | 61.4 | 70.3 | 52.6 | 44.7 | 5.6 | 24.6 | 60.5 | 75.5 | 52.3 |
| Canada | 57.6 | 76.0 | 62.9 | 70.2 | 55.8 | 53.8 | 30.0 | 19.7 | 54.2 | 76.5 | 44.4 |
| Chile | 56.7 | 80.1 | 53.9 | 66.8 | 56.5 | 47.0 | 12.9 | 17.4 | 46.8 | 78.5 | 50.7 |
| Czech Republic | 61.5 | 83.7 | 68.9 | 67.7 | 66.3 | 59.0 | 15.3 | 32.7 | 62.2 | 82.9 | 49.4 |
| Denmark | 56.4 | 71.4 | 65.6 | 61.4 | 50.2 | 53.7 | 21.3 | 28.2 | 64.7 | 75.7 | 42.5 |
| Estonia | 64.0 | 92.8 | 72.9 | 72.1 | 70.8 | 61.0 | 27.0 | 32.3 | 51.4 | 87.8 | 45.2 |
| Finland | 59.3 | 83.0 | 72.1 | 71.2 | 61.6 | 54.3 | 20.6 | 22.3 | 59.5 | 85.0 | 62.5 |
| France | 56.1 | 76.6 | 69.2 | 65.8 | 58.9 | 49.0 | 16.5 | 26.1 | 43.2 | 74.0 | 53.8 |
| Germany | 50.7 | 81.1 | 69.8 | 65.5 | 54.4 | 47.0 | 18.1 | 20.5 | 41.2 | 70.8 | 53.3 |
| Greece | 59.3 | 85.7 | 73.9 | 63.2 | 59.7 | 52.6 | 38.8 | 33.5 | 49.7 | 73.4 | 46.6 |
| Hungary | 61.3 | 83.5 | 66.8 | 69.3 | 66.7 | 52.4 | 18.8 | 29.2 | 48.5 | 75.9 | 56.6 |
| Iceland | 65.9 | 83.5 | 68.7 | 74.3 | 61.2 | 54.6 | 16.9 | 36.3 | 56.9 | 85.1 | 72.0 |
| Ireland | 51.9 | 71.3 | 59.1 | 61.5 | 49.5 | 50.9 | 20.9 | 17.6 | 39.5 | 76.4 | 44.9 |
| Israel | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 58.5 | 93.3 | 71.2 | 71.4 | 52.1 | 57.9 | 16.1 | 31.9 | 50.4 | 62.3 | 20.1 |
| Japan4 | 49.6 | 71.7 | 68.2 | 50.2 | 36.2 | 26.1 | --- | 13.7 | 42.0 | 63.8 | 78.8 |
| Korea, Republic of | 51.1 | 76.7 | 66.9 | 59.4 | 48.0 | 46.1 | 28.6 | 21.3 | 42.6 | 70.7 | 52.4 |
| Latvia | 65.6 | 92.1 | 75.7 | 77.5 | 70.1 | 65.2 | 23.7 | 26.7 | 45.7 | 86.6 | 53.9 |
| Lithuania | 62.4 | 80.2 | 72.6 | 74.6 | 69.4 | 60.0 | 11.6 | 24.6 | 46.4 | 83.2 | 44.1 |
| Luxembourg | 51.8 | 68.9 | 62.0 | 67.7 | 50.1 | 45.2 | 19.6 | 19.8 | 22.9 | 70.4 | 44.8 |
| Mexico | 53.6 | 72.6 | 58.3 | 70.0 | 55.4 | 52.5 | 32.2 | 28.4 | 33.8 | 68.0 | 29.8 |
| Netherlands | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 56.0 | 81.5 | 60.7 | 67.8 | 51.9 | 56.2 | 24.4 | 28.9 | 64.0 | 78.8 | 48.8 |
| Norway | 58.9 | 73.4 | 58.4 | 61.1 | 57.6 | 51.7 | 16.0 | 23.1 | 52.4 | 83.5 | 37.5 |
| Poland | 65.7 | 86.7 | 75.6 | 70.2 | 68.4 | 72.0 | 17.9 | 42.0 | 53.9 | 73.9 | 56.9 |
| Portugal | 58.7 | 82.3 | 61.6 | 69.6 | 59.5 | 61.6 | 23.5 | 33.0 | 64.1 | 77.4 | 45.6 |
| Slovak Republic | 63.1 | 81.5 | 68.1 | 72.0 | 65.0 | 66.1 | 13.8 | 28.8 | 61.7 | 78.3 | 41.4 |
| Slovenia | 59.5 | 83.0 | 70.2 | 69.5 | 65.3 | 62.8 | 15.5 | 23.8 | 57.0 | 79.3 | 53.5 |
| Spain | 55.9 | 76.3 | 58.8 | 64.0 | 56.9 | 50.9 | 14.0 | 26.4 | 43.4 | 73.0 | 46.3 |
| Sweden | 62.3 | 81.0 | 62.0 | 67.2 | 62.7 | 54.6 | 28.2 | 31.8 | 63.5 | 81.4 | 64.9 |
| Switzerland | 48.9 | 70.0 | 62.4 | 67.9 | 45.4 | 42.9 | 8.9 | 15.2 | 36.6 | 75.2 | 38.1 |
| Turkey | 50.4 | 72.0 | 63.3 | 55.0 | 47.0 | 56.4 | 32.2 | 28.2 | 42.2 | 65.7 | 36.3 |
| United Kingdom | 57.2 | 75.9 | 63.3 | 62.4 | 53.7 | 53.0 | 19.4 | 23.5 | 65.0 | 75.4 | 42.5 |
| United States | 58.4 | 78.2 | 60.0 | 65.2 | 50.5 | 52.5 | 23.6 | 20.4 | 52.0 | 81.4 | 51.7 |
| Other reporting countries | |||||||||||
| Brazil | 61.0 | 77.0 | 56.8 | 70.0 | 58.4 | 59.6 | 14.6 | 35.2 | 48.5 | 76.4 | 62.7 |
| China | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Colombia | 56.3 | 68.0 | 51.5 | 69.4 | 63.0 | 56.0 | 27.0 | 34.3 | 41.9 | 73.1 | 46.4 |
| Costa Rica | 62.1 | 71.5 | 59.9 | 69.6 | 60.9 | 53.8 | 23.3 | 35.2 | 46.2 | 78.1 | 61.8 |
| India | 50.3 | 61.1 | 56.1 | 55.1 | 46.8 | 51.3 | 46.3 | 30.8 | 27.4 | 61.6 | 66.0 |
| Indonesia | 58.8 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Russian Federation | 41.9 | 60.3 | 55.7 | 72.6 | 49.7 | 48.4 | 18.9 | 20.7 | 43.5 | 35.6 | 19.7 |
| Saudi Arabia | 51.8 | 66.4 | 64.1 | 55.0 | 38.2 | 67.2 | 43.6 | 3.7 | 18.1 | 56.3 | 65.8 |
| ---Not available. | |||||||||||
| 1 Excludes degrees in unknown fields of study. | |||||||||||
| 2 Includes personal, hygiene and occupational health, security, transport, and other services. | |||||||||||
| 3 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. | |||||||||||
| 4 Data on information and communication technologies are included in other fields. | |||||||||||
| NOTE: All data in this table refer to total tertiary degrees, as calculated using International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011. Total tertiary 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 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). Degree fields were classified using ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013). | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Online Education Database, retrieved May 23, 2019, from https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared May 2019.) |