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More and more women are attending tertiary level training courses. Image: keystone
That is the proportion of women in universities and technical colleges by subject.
More and more women are beginning their training at the tertiary level. In 2019, 53.6 of new college students were women. The “male domains” are getting busier: along with law and medicine, technology and natural sciences have the highest growth rates.
College graduation rates
In 2007, for the first time, more women than men graduated from a university; This was the case a year later at the level of the technical school and the teacher training school. Since then, women have been at the fore.
In 2019, 15.3 percent of women and 13.3 percent of men in the resident population of the same age graduated from university. In the first recorded data, this was only 3.1 percent of women and 8.9 percent of men at the college level.
Evolution of the proportion of women in the graduation rate
Bachelor / Diploma and Bachelor’s levels, in% of the resident population of the same age (net rates). FH and PH = University of Applied Sciences and University of Education. source: bfs / longitudinal analysis in the education sector (LABB)
Percentage of women in basic vocational training according to educational fields
Since 1994 there is a complete record of the proportion of women by educational field. In the arts, business and administration, computing, health care, social affairs, and personal services, the proportion of women has decreased since 1994.
If you move the slider back and forth, you can compare the female proportions:
Proportion of women in basic vocational training in 1994 and 2018
Students under the age of 20 in the first year of a multi-year certification course. source: bfs
Entrance to universities of applied sciences
In universities of applied sciences, women constitute a good third of those who enter. Almost half are in the departments of chemistry and life sciences (49.9 percent), economics and services (48.2), and agriculture and forestry (44.2).
Along with architecture, construction and planning, these fields of study have seen the largest increases in women since the introduction of universities of applied sciences in 1997: chemistry and life sciences record an increase of 30.9, agriculture and forestry 23.3, architecture, construction and planning 18.3 and business and services 18.1 percentage points.
We did the comparison with 2003, the first year in which there was data from all departments.
Entrance to universities
In 1980, the proportion of female students was 38.7 percent; the increase since then has been around 15 percentage points, as the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) list on Tuesday shows. The proportion of women in the legal department has almost doubled, that is, by 29.1 percentage points. Of last year’s new law students, 64.2 percent were women.
In medicine and pharmacy, up to 67.2 percent of first-year students are women, an increase of more than a quarter since 1980. The classics of the male domains – technology and the natural sciences – are being conquered every year. more and more by women: 20.1 percentage points more women were registered in technical sciences, 18.1 percent more in exact and natural sciences.
Proportion of women among teachers
It is also interesting to observe the proportion of women among teachers. At primary level 1-2 this is an incredible 94.9 percent, at primary level 3-8 it is 83.1%, and at secondary level I with 55.5% it is just over half.
From secondary level II onwards, male teachers are the majority. The proportion of women in general education is 47.8% and in basic vocational training 42.1%.
From the tertiary level onwards, men remain clearly the majority, although the proportion of women is increasing. At the level of higher technical school, female teachers represent 40.6%, in technical schools 38.7% and in universities 39.8%. The only exception here: the University of Education with 61% female teachers.
(With sda material)
