… 2018 While women outnumber men among tertiary education students (54 % compared with 46 %), they tend to be unequally … to as gender segregation. In 2018, only 17 % of female students had opted to enrol in STEM studies, compared with 42 % of male students. As a result, STEM studies are largely dominated by …
… people from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds given that students’ socioeconomic status impacts strongly on their … distribution of learning opportunities and outcomes for students (OECD, 2018a). This tendency can be traced in the …
… has yet to reach it (36 %) [1] . About half of EU students graduate in two main fields of education, with … striking in both. Just over a fifth (21 %) of men tertiary students graduate in education, health and welfare, … humanities and arts [2] , while only 33 % of women students graduate in STEM (EIGE, 2018c). Such a divide is …