Male-Female Score Gap

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Figure S3a. Difference in average scores of 15-year-old female and male students on the PISA science literacy scale, by education system: 2015

Male-female difference in average science literacy scores is statistically significant at the .05 level of significance.
Male-female difference in average science literacy scores is not measurably different.
# Rounds to zero.
NOTE: Education systems are ordered by absolute male-female difference in 2015 average score. 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 differences of the OECD member countries, with each country weighted equally. 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. Results for Massachusetts and North Carolina are for public school students only. Although Argentina, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan participated in PISA 2015, technical problems with their samples prevent results from being discussed in this report.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.

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Table S3b. Difference in average scores of 15-year-old female and male students on the PISA science literacy scale, by education system: 2015
Education system	Male-female difference		s.e.
OECD average	4	*	0.6
United Kingdom	1		3.5
Slovak Republic	-1		3.5
Hong Kong (China)	-1		4.1
Canada	1		2.4
Dominican Republic	2		2.7
France	2		3.4
Lebanon	2		3.7
Australia	2		2.3
Vietnam	-3		2.8
Norway	3		2.9
Iceland	-3		3.4
Hungary	3		4.0
Estonia	3		2.8
Tunisia	4	*	1.8
Indonesia	-4		2.8
Brazil	4	*	1.6
Netherlands	4		3.0
Israel	4		5.5
Russian Federation	4		3.2
Chinese Taipei	4		5.8
Sweden	-5		3.1
Montenegro, Republic of	-5	*	2.2
New Zealand	5		3.6
Slovenia	-6	*	2.7
Croatia	6		3.5
Romania	-6	*	3.0
Denmark	6		3.3
Switzerland	6	*	3.1
Poland	6	*	2.9
Turkey	-6		4.2
Singapore	6	*	2.5
Spain	7	*	2.7
United States	7	*	3.1
Moldova, Republic of	-7	*	2.8
Lithuania	-7	*	3.0
Luxembourg	8	*	2.3
Macau (China)	-8	*	2.1
Mexico	8	*	2.3
Uruguay	9	*	3.0
Czech Republic	9	*	3.7
Greece	-9	*	3.7
Thailand	-9	*	3.2
B-S-J-G (China)	9	*	3.0
Kosovo	-9	*	2.4
Korea, Republic of	-10		5.0
Colombia	10	*	2.9
Peru	10	*	3.3
Portugal	10	*	2.3
Germany	10	*	2.6
Ireland	11	*	3.2
Latvia	-11	*	2.8
Malta	-11	*	3.3
Belgium	12	*	3.6
Japan	14	*	3.9
Algeria	-14	*	3.2
Buenos Aires (Argentina)	14	*	6.7
Chile	15	*	3.4
Bulgaria	-15	*	4.5
Georgia	-16	*	3.1
Cyprus	-17	*	2.4
Italy	17	*	4.6
Costa Rica	18	*	2.1
Austria	19	*	4.8
Finland	-19	*	2.4
Macedonia, Republic of	-20	*	2.3
Trinidad and Tobago	-20	*	2.7
Qatar	-23	*	1.7
Albania	-24	*	3.1
United Arab Emirates	-26	*	4.4
Jordan	-39	*	5.4
U.S. states and territories
North Carolina	1		4.7
Puerto Rico	-9		5.8
Massachusetts	10		5.8

* p<.05. Difference between male and female scores is significantly different at the .05 level of statistical significance. NOTE: Education systems are ordered by absolute male-female difference in 2015 average score. 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 differences of the OECD member countries, with each country 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. Results for Massachusetts and North Carolina are for public school students only. Although Argentina, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan participated in PISA 2015, technical problems with their samples prevent results from being discussed in this report. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.