The Bureau released some statistics a few weeks ago that received very little attention from mainstream news outlets.
For some time, women have been more likely than men to attain a tertiary education (bachelor degree or higher). That is, the proportion of women completing tertiary education is greater than the proportion of men who complete tertiary education.
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Proportion of each sex with a bachelor degree or higher
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However, in non-school qualifications in general, women have not fared as well. This is because they have always been under-represented in trade certificates and the like.
In 2013, all that changed. Women finally eclipsed men in the measure of non-school qualifications. Men continue to be more likely to complete a qualification such as a trade certificate, but, because of women's overrepresentation in university degrees, they now beat men on the total non-school qualifications measure ... only just. 57.1 per cent of men hold a non-school qualification, while 57.3 per cent of women hold one.
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Proportion of each sex with a non-school qualification
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In qualifications, there still remain women's fields and men's fields - areas of study and training that are dominated by one or the other.
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Proportion of those holding a qualification in each field who are women
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And, despite women attaining parity with men on qualifications, they remain underrepresented in the workforce. According to these data, around 45 per cent of the workforce are women, with greater representation in some areas than others.
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Proportion of those working in each field who are women
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