Female-Male Score Gap

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Figure CPS4b. Difference in average scores of 15-year-old male and female students on the PISA collaborative problem solving scale, by education system: 2015

Male-female difference in average collaborative problem solving scores is statistically significant at the .05 level of significance. ! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable due to high coefficient of variation (>30 and ≤50 percent). NOTE: Education systems are ordered by absolute male-female difference in 2015 average score from smallest to largest. Differences were computed using unrounded numbers. Scores are reported on a scale from 0 to 1,000. The OECD average is the average of the national average score differences of the 32 OECD member countries that participated in the collaborative problem solving assessment, with each system weighted equally. Standard error is noted by s.e. Italics indicate non-OECD countries and education systems. B-S-J-G (China) refers to the four PISA participating China provinces: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. Malaysia administered the collaborative problem solving assessment but due to sampling issues its data were deemed not comparable and thus are not shown here. Results for Massachusetts and North Carolina are for public school students only. The average scores and standard errors are shown in table CPS4a. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.

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Table CPS4a. Average scores and difference in average scores of 15-year-old male and female students on the PISA collaborative problem solving scale, by education system: 2015
Education system	Average score						Male-female score difference		s.e.
	Male	s.e.		Female	s.e.
OECD average	486	0.6		515	0.5		-29	*	0.6
Peru	414	2.8		421	3.0		-7	!*	3.0
Costa Rica	437	2.8		445	2.7		-7	!*	2.7
Colombia	425	2.9		433	2.7		-8	!*	3.3
Tunisia	375	2.3		387	2.3		-12	*	2.4
Mexico	426	2.9		440	2.7		-14	*	2.9
Chile	450	3.1		464	3.1		-14	*	3.0
Uruguay	434	3.3		451	2.7		-17	*	3.9
Brazil	402	2.5		421	2.6		-18	*	2.3
Portugal	489	3.2		507	2.7		-19	*	2.8
Singapore	552	1.7		572	2.1		-20	*	2.9
Denmark	509	2.9		530	3.3		-21	*	3.5
B-S-J-G (China)	486	3.9		508	4.6		-22	*	3.2
Israel	459	4.3		481	4.7		-22	*	5.4
Spain	485	2.7		508	2.6		-22	*	3.0
Turkey	411	4.0		434	4.1		-23	*	4.3
Italy	466	3.4		489	3.4		-23	*	4.5
Austria	498	3.4		521	3.4		-24	*	4.4
Belgium	489	3.0		514	2.9		-25	*	3.7
Luxembourg	478	2.5		504	1.9		-25	*	3.3
Russian Federation	460	3.8		486	3.9		-25	*	3.9
Hungary	459	3.3		485	2.8		-26	*	4.1
United States	507	4.4		533	4.0		-26	*	4.3
Czech Republic	486	2.9		512	2.7		-26	*	3.6
Montenegro, Republic of	403	1.8		429	2.0		-26	*	2.9
Japan	539	3.6		565	2.6		-26	*	3.7
Estonia	522	2.9		549	2.7		-27	*	2.8
Croatia	459	3.3		486	2.6		-27	*	3.3
Iceland	485	3.0		512	2.6		-27	*	3.4
Netherlands	504	3.0		531	2.8		-27	*	3.3
Chinese Taipei	513	3.4		541	3.4		-28	*	4.9
Lithuania	453	2.9		482	2.8		-29	*	3.1
France	480	3.4		508	2.8		-29	*	3.9
Germany	510	3.4		540	3.0		-30	*	3.2
Slovak Republic	448	2.8		478	3.4		-30	*	4.2
Norway	487	3.0		518	3.2		-30	*	3.7
Greece	444	4.2		475	3.7		-31	*	3.7
Bulgaria	429	4.6		461	3.9		-31	*	4.2
Korea, Republic of	522	3.5		556	3.3		-33	*	4.4
United Kingdom	503	3.1		536	3.3		-34	*	3.5
Thailand	416	4.1		451	3.6		-35	*	3.6
Hong Kong (China)	523	3.7		559	3.4		-36	*	4.4
Slovenia	484	2.2		521	2.2		-36	*	2.6
United Arab Emirates	416	2.9		454	3.1		-38	*	4.1
Macau (China)	515	1.9		553	2.0		-38	*	2.9
Canada	516	2.8		555	2.4		-39	*	2.6
Cyprus	424	2.0		464	2.2		-40	*	2.4
Latvia	465	2.6		505	2.9		-40	*	3.2
New Zealand	513	3.2		553	3.0		-41	*	3.8
Australia	511	2.5		552	2.5		-41	*	3.1
Sweden	489	4.0		531	3.8		-42	*	3.9
Finland	511	3.2		559	3.0		-48	*	3.6
U.S. state education systems
Massachusetts	536	6.4		562	7.8		-26	*	7.1
North Carolina	509	5.2		540	6.3		-31	*	4.8

! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable due to high coefficient of variation (>30 and ≤50 percent). * p<.05. Male-female score difference is significantly different at the .05 level of statistical significance. NOTE: Education systems are ordered by absolute male-female difference in 2015 average score from smallest to largest. Differences were computed using unrounded numbers. Scores are reported on a scale from 0 to 1,000. The OECD average is the average of the national average score differences of the 32 OECD member countries that particpated in the collaborative problem solving assessment, with each system weighted equally. Standard error is noted by s.e. Italics indicate non-OECD countries and education systems. B-S-J-G (China) refers to the four PISA participating China provinces: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. Malaysia administered the collaborative problem solving assessment but due to sampling issues its data were deemed not comparable and thus are not shown here. Results for Massachusetts and North Carolina are for public school students only. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.