Share of women among entrants to higher education 2021, by field of study

Social and human care oriented fields of study are dominated by female students in the OECD countries. For instance, in Australia, 89 percent of the new students at short-cycle tertiary programs in education and 75 percent of the new health students were women, compared to only 25 percent of the new students within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. There were some differences between the countries, but in all OECD countries, a majority of the new bachelor's students within education and health were women.

在经合组织国家，社会科学与人文关怀领域的研究主要由女性学生主导。例如，在澳大利亚，教育短期高等教育课程的新生中女性占比高达89%，而健康学科的新生中女性占比为75%，相比之下，科学、技术、工程和数学领域的新生中女性仅占25%。各国之间存在着一些差异，但在所有经合组织国家中，教育与健康学科的新生中女性均占多数。