Education and employment: What are the gender differences?

<ul> <li> Among 25-34 year-olds, more women than men hold a tertiary qualification in 33 of the 36 countries for which data are comparable. </li> <li> Gender differences still exist in certain fields, with more men studying science, computing and engineering, and with women dominating education and health and welfare.</li> <li> Despite their higher educational attainment, young women still have lower employment rates than men, although the gender gap is much narrower for tertiary educated young women than for those with lower educational attainment.</li> <li> Women with tertiary education earn about three-quarters of their male peers’ earnings. <li> Some of this may be due to the under-representation of women at the highest levels of tertiary education, as well as in some fields of education, which are highly rewarded by the labour market.</li></ul>