Table 603.60.

Percentage of postsecondary degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2020

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	58.0	79.0	64.7	67.0	56.9	53.1	21.9	27.4	54.4	76.9	51.8
Australia	56.7	80.3	65.0	67.6	52.4	50.9	27.1	25.1	57.8	75.8	60.2
Austria	54.6	79.5	68.4	68.9	55.9	48.5	15.7	22.6	52.0	70.1	79.0
Belgium	59.1	77.2	62.2	72.3	53.9	42.0	13.9	23.5	63.9	74.1	52.7
Canada	56.1	77.8	62.6	68.8	52.5	55.8	24.7	21.9	59.8	83.2	52.3
Chile	57.1	83.9	56.5	65.8	57.1	41.4	12.6	20.0	49.9	78.2	50.0
Colombia	55.9	65.6	52.3	73.2	61.4	56.8	23.2	36.0	46.3	69.6	39.1
Costa Rica	63.2	73.1	60.3	68.7	64.0	55.2	23.0	38.2	49.9	77.2	65.4
Czech Republic	60.6	83.1	67.7	67.5	62.8	61.5	17.8	33.6	64.0	80.5	46.7
Denmark	56.1	70.1	67.2	62.4	50.9	53.2	23.7	27.9	64.1	77.3	48.6
Estonia	63.2	91.5	68.3	66.1	66.1	65.4	35.5	34.0	58.8	87.8	48.5
Finland	59.5	82.2	73.4	71.7	58.9	55.6	24.6	23.0	61.3	82.7	56.5
France	55.5	76.3	69.2	68.9	58.7	50.7	18.9	23.3	41.7	75.2	51.0
Germany	50.1	81.2	70.3	67.8	53.6	48.7	21.4	20.4	40.7	71.0	50.5
Greece	59.0	85.6	70.9	65.2	59.3	51.8	34.3	36.3	47.5	70.8	46.5
Hungary	61.5	84.0	64.1	68.2	68.2	53.0	17.1	25.7	47.3	79.0	65.3
Iceland	66.4	80.7	66.3	74.5	61.0	54.2	26.4	37.5	58.7	85.7	61.2
Ireland	54.4	77.6	62.4	64.9	50.9	49.6	27.3	23.2	41.9	77.6	47.4
Israel	59.9	83.6	60.3	65.8	56.9	52.9	35.9	26.2	42.4	77.9	---
Italy	58.4	79.9	70.4	63.8	51.7	57.5	17.9	30.9	49.6	66.0	41.3
Japan	49.9	70.8	67.5	47.9	38.0	27.1	---	15.5	42.1	66.2	76.3
Korea, Republic of	50.9	77.8	65.5	60.8	50.4	47.4	25.1	20.5	44.5	70.4	52.1
Latvia	65.4	93.8	78.8	75.9	67.5	62.1	23.4	26.8	48.3	85.2	47.1
Lithuania	61.5	80.9	72.7	73.0	66.3	61.5	17.8	26.4	57.0	83.8	41.4
Luxembourg	55.0	75.7	58.2	63.6	51.9	52.1	15.8	26.5	75.0	82.6	22.2
Mexico	54.1	73.4	58.8	61.0	58.3	51.5	27.2	30.5	40.8	67.4	52.4
Netherlands	56.1	75.8	57.0	68.4	48.8	46.7	16.2	25.6	56.7	78.2	53.1
New Zealand	59.7	80.4	63.5	68.2	53.8	58.5	26.5	32.0	70.6	80.5	57.3
Norway	58.0	72.7	59.6	62.4	54.1	48.3	19.5	25.2	61.6	82.3	39.8
Poland	65.1	88.4	73.8	70.5	66.5	70.5	21.6	40.8	58.1	72.5	56.2
Portugal	58.1	79.7	63.4	70.7	61.3	59.6	15.8	31.1	59.8	78.2	46.0
Slovak Republic	61.4	81.4	66.5	71.2	65.6	66.5	17.1	26.6	60.2	74.8	42.1
Slovenia	60.3	89.7	65.5	69.3	65.7	60.8	12.9	26.6	64.9	78.4	58.6
Spain	57.1	75.9	59.6	65.9	56.1	48.6	12.6	26.7	47.0	74.2	45.0
Sweden	62.9	80.2	62.2	68.5	63.7	53.0	34.3	34.4	69.3	80.5	60.8
Switzerland	49.8	69.4	61.3	67.9	45.4	44.3	11.5	18.5	40.6	74.2	42.7
Türkiye	52.3	68.0	61.1	55.2	46.5	54.2	26.3	29.1	40.1	76.7	41.0
United Kingdom	58.3	76.0	64.7	68.7	55.2	45.6	21.4	25.9	71.0	76.2	72.8
United States	59.3	79.8	61.3	66.5	50.5	55.8	25.6	23.4	60.8	79.1	49.4
Other reporting countries
Brazil	59.7	77.3	56.3	70.4	56.8	52.2	14.1	37.6	52.2	72.4	58.4

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1Includes degrees in unknown fields of study.

2Includes personal, hygiene and occupational health, security, transport, and other services.

3Refers 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). Data are collected for the school year ending in the reported year for each country. For example, for reported year 2020, the reference period is school year 2019-2020 for Northern Hemisphere countries and 2020 for Southern Hemisphere countries. For more information on the school year reported by OECD countries, see Annex Table X1.3 here: https://stat.link/3ha7ok.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Online Education Database, retrieved October 7, 2022, from https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared October 2022.)