… On average in the EU-27, the early school leaving rate is 15.3% for young men and 11.6% for young women, with … people aged 15 – 24, between 2008 and 2014, the employment rate for men declined by around 5.9%, while that for women declined by 3.8% (in 2014, the rate was 30.5% for women and 34.2% for men). Similar trends …