Men trail women at tertiary study

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By REBECCA TODD - The Press Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Three times more women than men will graduate from New Zealand tertiary institutions by 2025, a new report says.

A new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report, Higher Education to 2030, predicts that women will make up 76 percent of tertiary education graduates in New Zealand by 2025, despite accounting for only 60 percent of all students.
In 2005, they made up 61 percent of graduates and 59 percent of students.
In Australia, women are expected to make up 62 percent of graduates in 2025, and 71 percent in Britain.
Student populations in OECD countries were dominated by men until the 1990s, when "inequalities to the detriment of men" started to reverse the trend, the report says.
Women were marrying and having children later and faced less discrimination in the workplace, which encouraged them into tertiary education.
"There is a need now to review policies on educational equality between the sexes by taking note of the fact that it is not now women who are necessarily at a disadvantage, and also by paying attention to the achievement of boys," the report says.

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