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| Table 603.60. | Percentage of bachelor's and higher degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2012 |
| Country | All fields1 | Education | Humanities and arts | Health and welfare | Social sciences, business, and law | Personal, transport, environmental protection, and security services | Engineering, manufactur-ing, and construction | Sciences, mathematics, and computer science | Agricul- ture |
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| Total | Life sciences | Physical sciences | Mathematics and statistics | Computer science | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| OECD average2 | 58.0 | 77.2 | 65.8 | 74.9 | 58.1 | 52.7 | 27.0 | 41.3 | 63.0 | 43.2 | 46.1 | 20.0 | 54.9 |
| Australia3 | 57.6 | 75.4 | 64.2 | 75.0 | 55.6 | 54.9 | 24.2 | 38.1 | 55.4 | 48.4 | 38.9 | 20.3 | 56.8 |
| Austria | 55.3 | 80.4 | 68.4 | 67.8 | 57.7 | 41.7 | 24.9 | 36.3 | 69.1 | 31.9 | 36.9 | 15.7 | 63.7 |
| Belgium | 55.3 | 75.9 | 64.8 | 66.7 | 59.6 | 39.2 | 25.6 | 34.8 | 53.2 | 32.7 | 40.0 | 9.8 | 57.4 |
| Canada3 | 59.6 | 75.3 | 63.8 | 82.4 | 57.9 | 59.2 | 23.4 | 48.6 | 61.4 | 43.4 | 41.1 | 19.0 | 58.1 |
| Chile | 56.3 | 70.1 | 60.9 | 69.9 | 51.8 | 48.9 | 27.2 | 30.1 | 54.5 | 39.7 | 34.3 | 11.2 | 47.6 |
| Czech Republic | 61.1 | 80.7 | 71.2 | 80.2 | 67.6 | 47.8 | 27.7 | 38.0 | 72.0 | 46.4 | 53.5 | 12.2 | 59.5 |
| Denmark | 59.2 | 73.1 | 66.2 | 80.0 | 54.9 | 28.7 | 32.6 | 39.7 | 65.2 | 42.3 | 47.3 | 26.8 | 69.9 |
| Estonia | 65.8 | 91.0 | 75.6 | 84.0 | 71.3 | 62.9 | 33.2 | 47.9 | 74.9 | 50.6 | 72.2 | 23.1 | 58.7 |
| Finland | 61.0 | 82.1 | 73.6 | 84.9 | 64.9 | 69.5 | 22.1 | 43.2 | 73.2 | 46.3 | 46.6 | 23.9 | 54.8 |
| France3 | 55.8 | 78.4 | 70.9 | 62.4 | 60.6 | 46.6 | 31.1 | 38.0 | 63.6 | 39.0 | 36.7 | 16.6 | 58.0 |
| Germany | 54.5 | 73.3 | 72.7 | 69.9 | 54.7 | 52.8 | 22.1 | 43.8 | 66.8 | 41.9 | 59.2 | 16.7 | 55.3 |
| Greece | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hungary | 62.3 | 82.2 | 69.7 | 74.7 | 68.4 | 59.5 | 22.2 | 40.6 | 67.5 | 46.5 | 50.9 | 17.2 | 47.7 |
| Iceland | 64.8 | 83.8 | 62.6 | 85.9 | 63.6 | 79.8 | 32.6 | 39.2 | 60.2 | 44.3 | 35.0 | 13.1 | 72.7 |
| Ireland | 57.2 | 76.2 | 61.7 | 80.3 | 53.9 | 52.6 | 20.6 | 42.4 | 42.4 | 42.4 | 42.4 | 42.3 | 43.5 |
| Israel | 58.8 | 82.2 | 62.0 | 78.9 | 56.8 | 79.0 | 28.1 | 43.3 | 62.0 | 37.7 | 37.6 | 26.1 | 55.2 |
| Italy | 62.2 | 87.8 | 75.1 | 68.7 | 59.3 | 50.7 | 39.7 | 54.7 | 71.5 | 41.9 | 54.3 | 25.5 | 48.0 |
| Japan | 42.2 | 59.4 | 69.0 | 58.3 | 35.3 | 90.9 | 11.3 | 25.6 | — | — | — | — | 39.9 |
| Korea, Republic of | 47.9 | 70.7 | 67.0 | 65.6 | 45.2 | 37.3 | 24.2 | 40.1 | 48.7 | 44.0 | 55.9 | 24.0 | 39.6 |
| Mexico | 54.3 | 72.2 | 58.0 | 66.7 | 59.1 | 24.9 | 28.7 | 47.1 | 59.0 | 41.0 | 45.5 | 39.4 | 36.0 |
| Netherlands | 56.6 | 79.1 | 58.6 | 75.0 | 53.8 | 51.8 | 21.0 | 25.8 | 60.6 | 26.7 | 32.2 | 12.8 | 54.9 |
| New Zealand | 61.8 | 83.2 | 65.5 | 78.2 | 57.7 | 48.9 | 30.9 | 43.5 | 62.5 | 41.6 | 43.4 | 19.8 | 59.6 |
| Norway | 61.0 | 74.2 | 57.4 | 83.1 | 57.6 | 43.0 | 26.1 | 36.1 | 66.2 | 39.8 | 34.5 | 13.2 | 62.4 |
| Poland | 65.8 | 81.6 | 76.2 | 75.9 | 68.9 | 55.6 | 33.9 | 44.8 | 72.5 | 67.4 | 64.0 | 15.6 | 55.5 |
| Portugal | 60.5 | 81.4 | 60.0 | 79.0 | 62.8 | 51.1 | 31.1 | 56.2 | 72.3 | 48.7 | 62.8 | 22.4 | 58.7 |
| Slovak Republic | 63.9 | 77.8 | 68.7 | 82.7 | 69.3 | 42.1 | 31.3 | 43.1 | 71.6 | 54.7 | 44.2 | 12.8 | 50.8 |
| Slovenia | 63.7 | 84.8 | 74.6 | 80.3 | 69.3 | 56.0 | 31.1 | 43.8 | 75.0 | 41.4 | 61.6 | 15.0 | 62.3 |
| Spain | 57.5 | 72.2 | 62.9 | 74.2 | 58.7 | 49.0 | 31.4 | 42.4 | 62.0 | 49.4 | 50.2 | 17.0 | 49.7 |
| Sweden | 62.5 | 81.4 | 61.9 | 81.6 | 60.5 | 54.0 | 29.9 | 43.1 | 60.0 | 43.2 | 37.9 | 29.4 | 58.9 |
| Switzerland | 51.2 | 73.4 | 61.8 | 69.4 | 48.8 | 54.9 | 19.2 | 35.4 | 52.4 | 35.2 | 28.9 | 8.6 | 66.4 |
| Turkey | 48.4 | 57.5 | 58.6 | 60.6 | 45.4 | 35.3 | 31.6 | 53.9 | 71.0 | 50.3 | 58.2 | 29.3 | 37.0 |
| United Kingdom | 55.7 | 76.8 | 62.3 | 74.2 | 54.9 | 63.0 | 22.8 | 37.7 | 49.6 | 42.6 | 41.7 | 19.0 | 66.8 |
| United States | 57.6 | 77.5 | 59.0 | 79.5 | 54.4 | 54.4 | 22.2 | 43.1 | 58.1 | 38.7 | 41.6 | 21.1 | 52.0 |
| Other reporting countries | |||||||||||||
| Argentina3 | 61.3 | 77.4 | 70.4 | 72.7 | 61.4 | 45.5 | 36.2 | 50.6 | 71.4 | 55.1 | 70.0 | 26.9 | 43.3 |
| Brazil | 62.9 | 77.2 | 52.6 | 77.4 | 58.2 | 67.8 | 30.6 | 40.2 | 72.6 | 45.8 | 46.1 | 16.6 | 42.6 |
| China | 49.2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indonesia | 47.9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Russian Federation4 | 60.5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Saudi Arabia | 63.5 | 54.1 | 74.8 | 53.6 | 57.9 | 61.5 | 6.7 | 69.1 | 81.4 | 77.0 | 75.8 | 44.7 | 11.5 |
| South Africa | 58.7 | 72.4 | 61.8 | 72.5 | 58.7 | 82.8 | 28.9 | 49.6 | 64.0 | 48.2 | 39.0 | 36.6 | 46.3 |
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| 1 May contain fields not shown in this table. | |||||||||||||
| 2 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. | |||||||||||||
| 3 Data are for 2011 instead of 2012. | |||||||||||||
| 4 Data exclude International Standard Classification of Education 1997 (ISCED:97) level 6 (corresponding to doctor's degrees in the United States). | |||||||||||||
| NOTE: Data in this table refer to degrees classified as ISCED:97 level 5A (first and second award) or level 6. ISCED:97 level 5A, first award, corresponds to the bachelor's degree in the United States; ISCED:97 level 5A, second award, corresponds to master's and first-professional degrees in the United States; and ISCED:97 level 6 corresponds to doctor's degrees. Data for Luxembourg are not shown because students generally attend no more than 1 year of higher education in Luxembourg and must complete their degrees in other countries. | |||||||||||||
| SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, 2014. (This table was prepared August 2014.) |