Table 7.

Graduates by level and type of educational program (Canada, 1974-75)

Female Male
  (thousands)  
       
Graduated from:      
  
Secondary schools: 137.0 117.4
(53.9%)
Post-secondary institutions:      
  Non-university
   diploma or certificate 29.7 23.5
(55.8%)
       
University
 diploma or certificate      
   undergraduate level 4.0 4.0
  (50.0%)    
       
graduate level 0.4 0.9
  (30.8%)    
       
Degree
   Bachelor's 35.7 44.9  
  (44.3%)    
       
   Master's 3.1 7.8
  (28.4%)    
     
   Doctorate 0.3 1.5
  (16.7%)    
       
Total all post-secondary 73.2 82.6
(47.0%)    


Source:

Zsigmond, Z. and others, Out of school - into the labour force. Trends and prospects for enrolment, school learners and the labour force in Canada -- the 1960s through the 1980s. (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Education, Science and Culrutre Division, 1978) Catalogue 81-570E

Comments:

While women leave secondary school as 54% of the total graduates and complete various post-secondary diplomas and certificates in approximately the same proportions; their share of various post-secondary degrees rapidly declines as the level of degree increases.



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