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PERCENTAGE OF FEMALE
UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT
BY SELECT SPECIALIZATIONS, PROVINCE
& SELECTED YEARS
Compiled from the Historical
Compendium of Education Statistics and Education in Canada, 1980 -
81
Province
Year |
Nfld.
65 70 75
81 |
P.E.I.
65 70 75
81 |
N.S.
65 70 75
81 |
N.B.
65 70 75
81 |
Que.
65 70 75
81 |
Ont.
65 70 75
81 |
Sask.
65 70 75
81 |
Man.
65 70 75
81 |
Alta.
65 70 75
81 |
B.C.
65 70 75
81 |
Canada
30 50 65 70 75
81 |
Specialization
Arts,
Science |
30 34 40 50 |
34 45 52 56 |
38 44 46 51 |
36 42 49 51 |
31 39 45 50 |
38 40 46 50 |
35 38 39 45 |
35 36 39 45 |
31 35 39 45 |
33 35 40 45 |
33 28 35 39 44 49 |
Commerce,
Bus.
Admin. |
6 4 16 36 |
1 6 17 34 |
18 20 29 44 |
12 16 22 38 |
5 7 18 33 |
10 13 28 40 |
4 7 22 39 |
8 11 19 36 |
5 6 20 36 |
4 7 16 33 |
14 10 8 10 22 37 |
Education
|
51 49 55 71 |
82 73 63 78 |
57 47 55 60 |
31 47 62 63 |
54 53 64 71 |
43 48 58 65 |
55 58 65 72 |
71 68 70 75 |
57 60 66 71 |
61 66 63 68 |
64 42 56 62 69 |
Engineering&
Applied
Science |
0 1 6 6 |
0 1 2 9 |
1 1 4 8 |
1 1 6 9 |
2 3 6 10 |
1 2 6 10 |
1 1 3 6 |
1 1 3 6 |
1 1 4 9 |
1 1 6 12 |
1 1 1 2 6 9 |
Medicine
|
- 23 28 39 |
- - - - |
8 14 25 34 |
- - - - |
11 19 32 42 |
15 18 25 33 |
12 22 31 38 |
11 12 22 30 |
11 17 26 32 |
9 19 24 33 |
4 6 12 18 27 36 |
| Nursing |
100 96 99 99 |
- - - - |
99 98 99 99 |
100 100 99 98 |
97 93 92 91 |
99 99 99 98 |
100 98 98 99 |
100 100 97 100 |
100 99 98 98 |
97 98 98 98 |
100 100 9 98 97 97 |
| Other Health
Professions* |
- - - - |
100 - - - |
33 46 54 67 |
- - - - |
38 44 57 61 |
37 40 54 57 |
38 59 56 59 |
51 64 60 60 |
45 61 68 67 |
57 54 49 54 |
4 16 41 48 57 60 |
| Law |
- - - - |
- - - - |
6 7 25 33 |
1 9 20 37 |
9 20 33 46 |
4 10 25 36 |
8 11 26 33 |
7 7 27 34 |
8 10 20 36 |
3 6 24 31 |
3 4 6 13 27 38 |
Religion &
Theology |
- - 29 31 |
- - - 50 |
2 6 13 16 |
- - 60 45 |
1 21 22 35 |
3 23 37 29 |
0 35 41 22 |
0 33 33 42 |
0 14 31 27 |
0 30 45 26 |
2 4 2 24 34 30 |
- program of studies unavailable
*includes Dentistry, Pharmacy, Miscellaneous 0
No women (presumably excluded)
This table shows general increases in the proportion of
women in most of the major areas of undergraduate study. Arts and science were
reported jointly until 1975 so we do not see separate figures for these areas.
Separate figures are available for 1980/81 and show that while women were 54%
of arts undergraduates, they were only 38% of students in science.
If women were evenly distributed in all courses, we would
expect them to be 46% of students in each area. They are not, however, and are
most seriously under- represented in engineering and applied sciences (9%) and
most seriously over- represented in nursing (97%). Sex-stereotyping is clearly
operative in both these areas, as it is in other.
This factor becomes even more apparent in the following
tables which show the distribution of women in various fields of study, both as
part time and full-time students as a percentage of all women students.
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