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Table 603.60. Percentage of postsecondary degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2019
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 57.8 79.2 64.5 67.0 57.1 53.2 21.2 27.0 53.7 76.5 52.8
Australia 57.5 81.7 63.5 67.5 52.6 50.7 24.7 24.0 59.7 75.8 63.3
Austria 54.6 80.4 66.6 69.7 56.4 49.8 16.2 23.0 52.7 68.8 80.7
Belgium 59.0 78.7 63.0 68.9 54.7 41.9 12.2 23.5 63.2 73.8 53.1
Canada 56.8 77.1 63.1 68.7 52.9 56.2 23.0 21.9 59.6 83.4 53.4
Chile 57.3 83.8 53.5 66.8 57.2 46.1 12.4 18.4 49.4 77.3 49.7

Colombia
56.0 66.5 50.0 72.7 62.3 57.6 23.1 34.2 45.9 70.0 49.6
Costa Rica 62.7 72.2 57.1 70.5 63.4 56.5 21.2 37.8 45.4 77.4 64.9
Czech Republic 61.2 83.9 68.9 68.0 63.1 60.3 17.7 34.4 63.9 81.5 46.3
Denmark 56.3 71.0 66.4 62.9 49.9 55.0 24.1 28.0 62.6 77.7 46.2
Estonia 63.6 92.4 69.7 67.8 68.7 63.3 37.0 31.2 57.0 86.8 48.6

Finland
59.2 83.1 71.5 72.5 59.7 54.8 21.9 22.1 62.8 83.8 53.9
France 55.7 77.2 70.0 68.1 58.6 50.3 18.8 23.6 43.6 74.3 51.5
Germany 49.6 81.2 69.5 67.0 54.1 48.0 20.6 19.5 38.0 70.8 51.5
Greece 60.0 87.0 73.1 65.9 60.1 54.0 35.8 34.9 50.9 69.7 45.0
Hungary 59.1 84.0 66.8 66.7 64.5 49.3 16.6 28.5 48.8 73.0 53.2

Iceland
65.9 80.8 63.7 74.4 60.9 53.3 28.3 43.2 61.4 83.4 66.4
Ireland 54.5 76.5 62.1 64.3 50.4 49.8 25.3 22.8 41.4 77.3 45.4
Israel --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Italy 57.4 86.6 70.3 63.4 51.6 57.4 19.0 31.0 49.8 66.0 41.7
Japan 49.8 70.9 67.9 47.7 37.6 26.5 --- 15.0 42.0 65.7 76.0

Korea, Republic of
51.0 78.3 65.2 60.4 49.7 47.1 24.4 20.2 44.5 70.9 52.1
Latvia 65.2 93.6 74.3 75.6 67.8 62.2 25.8 25.2 52.7 84.7 49.6
Lithuania 61.6 80.5 76.8 75.5 66.7 61.6 17.0 25.9 53.5 83.6 46.9
Luxembourg 53.3 75.9 54.4 63.0 53.6 41.6 16.3 21.1 66.7 79.8 57.1
Mexico 53.7 73.2 57.8 60.8 57.8 52.8 27.3 29.4 38.6 68.4 50.3

Netherlands
55.9 76.2 55.3 68.4 48.2 45.1 15.1 25.1 55.0 77.3 53.5
New Zealand 60.3 80.0 61.7 69.0 57.4 57.9 26.4 31.6 72.2 80.7 54.9
Norway 58.2 72.0 59.8 62.1 55.1 49.0 18.6 24.4 56.4 82.2 39.6
Poland 65.8 87.6 74.3 72.5 67.2 70.3 21.0 41.9 56.0 73.5 56.1
Portugal 58.3 81.0 62.7 70.7 60.5 59.6 17.4 31.7 63.0 79.0 44.7

Slovak Republic
61.4 80.3 67.7 70.8 63.7 64.8 13.6 26.7 61.2 76.8 42.8
Slovenia 60.0 89.2 68.9 72.0 66.4 62.8 14.6 25.9 56.5 77.6 52.0
Spain 56.1 75.4 58.5 65.3 55.7 49.4 11.7 25.5 45.7 74.4 45.2
Sweden 62.2 80.5 62.3 66.3 64.1 51.6 32.4 33.4 66.5 80.3 60.1
Switzerland 49.3 68.9 60.2 67.6 45.9 43.5 11.9 16.8 36.6 75.0 42.3

Turkey
53.2 65.9 63.3 57.2 48.6 57.1 28.5 30.9 41.0 74.3 43.2
United Kingdom 58.3 76.8 64.2 63.3 55.5 56.6 19.6 25.5 68.9 75.5 68.8
United States 58.8 79.5 60.7 66.1 50.2 54.4 24.8 21.9 54.4 81.5 52.7

Other reporting countries
                     
Brazil 59.9 75.3 57.2 70.7 57.0 53.0 13.7 37.7 51.9 73.5 60.6
China --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
India --- 63.1 60.5 57.5 51.3 55.8 49.6 30.2 30.1 64.0 76.9
Indonesia --- 69.6 58.9 50.6 57.9 74.3 34.7 24.9 48.3 78.0 0
Russian Federation --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Saudi Arabia --- 72.6 69.2 57.2 46.8 70.3 47.4 3.8 0 58.6 77.1
---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.
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).
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Online Education Database, retrieved September 20, 2021, from https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared September 2021.)

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