Results from the first Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), found that gender differences in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) have narrowed considerably among 16-24 year-olds, and that, among younger adults, there is, on average, no gender difference in proficiency in numeracy or literacy. In fact, in those countries where there is a difference between young men’s and young women’s levels of literacy, it is young women who score higher.
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11 mar 2014
women’s absence in STEM occupations
Results from the first Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), found that gender differences in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) have narrowed considerably among 16-24 year-olds, and that, among younger adults, there is, on average, no gender difference in proficiency in numeracy or literacy. In fact, in those countries where there is a difference between young men’s and young women’s levels of literacy, it is young women who score higher.
8 mar 2013
International Women’s Day: Girls and boys
in employment – around the world
On the 2009 PISA reading assessment, girls outperformed boys in every country, and on average
by 39 score points – the equivalent of one year of schooling. By contrast, boys tend to outperform
girls in mathematics.
An estimated 66% of young women in OECD countries are expected to enter a university
programme during their lifetime, compared to 52% of young men.
Men are more likely than women to hold advanced research qualifications, and 74% of all graduates
in the fields of engineering, manufacturing and construction are men.
Higher (tertiary) education improves job prospects for both men and women, and the gender
gap in employment narrows at the highest levels of educational attainment.
(...) We don’t gain much if we gain on one side and lose on the other.
It’s all about empowerment: having equal opportunities to realise our
individual potential.
And that is something that should not be
gender-specific.
A Women’s Day Challenge
Director for Education and Skills
Women in Science
Science remains institutionally sexist. Despite some progress, women scientists are still paid less, promoted less frequently, win fewer grants and are more likely to leave research than similarly qualified men. This special issue of Nature takes a hard look at the gender gap — from bench to boardroom — and at what is being done to close it.
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