[oc] 🚺🎓 Women now make up 6 out of 10 university students in Latin America. Here’s how enrollment per country looks.
September 25, 2024
[oc] 🚺🎓 Women now make up 6 out of 10 university students in Latin America. Here’s how enrollment per country looks.
Posted by latinometrics
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Over half of all Latin Americans have enrolled in some form of tertiary education, which refers to the university level and above (graduate school, etc.). The rise from the figures of the early 1970s to today have been drastic, seeing nearly uninterrupted growth.
I don’t get the percentages… I know for certain 60% of men don’t go to college in the US, so I can’t figure out what those numbers mean
Perhaps we should start men-only programs to achieve equality
No feminist is going to say that we have to fix this inequality
The disparity between male and female enrollment in Argentina is huge.
This data isn’t beatiful. Having significantly more than 100% in some cases is a clear indicator, that under- and overage people according to the statistic have a big influence on the overall number. But it is impossible to tell how big that influence is.
And it is a very different discussion, whether the dominance of women is present in normal college age groups, or if it is only an artefact, of women living longer and attending senior university classes.
Graph is not colour blind friendly. Cannot determine male or female based on colour alone. Perhaps add different shapes as well.
That’s unfair – men should get extra points during admission for equity’s sake
Try MINT / STEM field courses…. rarely seen there
Well, makes sense, as men are more likely to go into trades / physical labor jobs that do not require a college degree.
Even after reading the disclaimer, I still don’t understand how the numbers are over 100%
Data is beautiful…
…140% of Argentinian women are in college.
Yep, fits this sub perfectly.
It feels odd to include PR considering it’s a US territory
Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. yet it’s, again, listed as a separate country.
How can it be over 100%? Does that mean some go into two or what?
Impressive how so many people can’t read the footnote explaining the percentage
whoever made this picked horrible colors for gender. I’m moderately colorblind and all the dots look the same lol.
I’m quite surprised that rates for men & women are equal in both Pakistan and Nigeria.
I wonder if that’s an artifact of poor data?
And neither of them can afford a home or family
The sad part is there’s people on here that don’t like this.
Great colours for a colourblind person like me..
There is a reason at least in my country. Women get free tuition or at least free admission fees in many colleges and my country also promotes girl child and demotivates female infanticide
(I am from Asia)
Interesting to see such large disparities, with only Japan, Nigeria, and Pakistan on the list having more men than women attending college. Highlighting the disparities with a line between each country’s two data points would help readability too (a lollipop chart instead of a scatterplot).
This is incredibly unsurprising in the west, where most educational reform is pro-female (saying as a female)
I wonder why so high elsewhere. Men starting work earlier? Entering trades?
The data isn’t very useful as a standalone piece.
42/70? Wow! 35% of college aged women are actually in college and 28% for men in the same age bracket 18-24.
If you look at the Countries that the U.S. receives the most illegal immigrants from, the gap between female and male becomes larger. Wonder what that could mean?
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Over half of all Latin Americans have enrolled in some form of tertiary education, which refers to the university level and above (graduate school, etc.). The rise from the figures of the early 1970s to today have been drastic, seeing nearly uninterrupted growth.
Tools: Rawgraphs, Figma
Sources:
* [School enrollment, primary (% gross) | Data (worldbank.org)](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.ENRR)
* [School enrollment, secondary (% gross) | Data (worldbank.org)](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.ENRR)
* [School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) | Data (worldbank.org)](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR)
I don’t get the percentages… I know for certain 60% of men don’t go to college in the US, so I can’t figure out what those numbers mean
Perhaps we should start men-only programs to achieve equality
No feminist is going to say that we have to fix this inequality
The disparity between male and female enrollment in Argentina is huge.
This data isn’t beatiful. Having significantly more than 100% in some cases is a clear indicator, that under- and overage people according to the statistic have a big influence on the overall number. But it is impossible to tell how big that influence is.
And it is a very different discussion, whether the dominance of women is present in normal college age groups, or if it is only an artefact, of women living longer and attending senior university classes.
Graph is not colour blind friendly. Cannot determine male or female based on colour alone. Perhaps add different shapes as well.
That’s unfair – men should get extra points during admission for equity’s sake
Try MINT / STEM field courses…. rarely seen there
Well, makes sense, as men are more likely to go into trades / physical labor jobs that do not require a college degree.
Even after reading the disclaimer, I still don’t understand how the numbers are over 100%
Data is beautiful…
…140% of Argentinian women are in college.
Yep, fits this sub perfectly.
It feels odd to include PR considering it’s a US territory
Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. yet it’s, again, listed as a separate country.
How can it be over 100%? Does that mean some go into two or what?
Impressive how so many people can’t read the footnote explaining the percentage
whoever made this picked horrible colors for gender. I’m moderately colorblind and all the dots look the same lol.
I’m quite surprised that rates for men & women are equal in both Pakistan and Nigeria.
I wonder if that’s an artifact of poor data?
And neither of them can afford a home or family
The sad part is there’s people on here that don’t like this.
Great colours for a colourblind person like me..
There is a reason at least in my country. Women get free tuition or at least free admission fees in many colleges and my country also promotes girl child and demotivates female infanticide
(I am from Asia)
Interesting to see such large disparities, with only Japan, Nigeria, and Pakistan on the list having more men than women attending college. Highlighting the disparities with a line between each country’s two data points would help readability too (a lollipop chart instead of a scatterplot).
This is incredibly unsurprising in the west, where most educational reform is pro-female (saying as a female)
I wonder why so high elsewhere. Men starting work earlier? Entering trades?
The data isn’t very useful as a standalone piece.
42/70? Wow! 35% of college aged women are actually in college and 28% for men in the same age bracket 18-24.
If you look at the Countries that the U.S. receives the most illegal immigrants from, the gap between female and male becomes larger. Wonder what that could mean?
Looks like men are joining the military.
Japan still has more men than women in uni.