CHART 2

Unemployment Rate by Highest Level of Schooling
(Ontario)

Source: Province of Ontario, Gender Equality Indicator, 1987.

Note: For the purposes of compiling the GEI, men were chosen as the equality benchmark. In each indicator, the male and female populations of Ontario during a specific time are compared in terms of percentages. The female score was divided by the male score, providing the ratio of women relative to men. With respect to Chart 2 above, the GEI shows that the unemployment rate for females with high school education or less has remained relatively stable, at a consistently higher rate than their male equivalents. The unemployment rate for female university graduates is nearly double that of their male counterparts.