A newly released Statistics Canada report has found that in 2025, 71 per cent of women aged 25 to 64 had attained a college or university credential, up from 61 per cent in 2015.
Across the same age range, the number of men getting a college or university credential also rose from 49 per cent in 2015 to 57 per cent in 2025.
In total, nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of Canadian adults aged 25 to 64 held a college or university credential, up from 55 per cent in 2015.
Ana Ferrer, a professor at the University of Waterloo and research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics, says the value of education is only growing in a fluctuating economy.
The Statistics Canada data also found that across the next 10 years, “over 80 per cent of new job openings arising from economic growth are projected to be mainly in management positions and in those that usually require post-secondary education.”
“Women realize that the more education you have, the stronger your position is,” said Ferrer.
“Women have caught up to that really quickly and they have continued these trends which have pushed them into higher levels of education.”
According to the Canadian Occupational Projection System, out of 485 assessed occupations in 2023, there were 59 occupations where at least 80 per cent of workers were women. Out of those 59 occupations, 35 of them “are expected to have a job opening ratio above the average of all occupations.”
Of those 35 professions, 16 of them were health occupations and 12 were “business, finance and administrative occupations.”
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In comparison, there were 161 occupations where at least 80 per cent of those workers were men and 63 of those professions were expected to have a high job opening ratio.
Thirty-one of those jobs were in “trades, transport and equipment operators,” 16 were in manufacturing and utilities, 10 in “natural and applied sciences” and four in “natural resources and agriculture.”
Ferrer also believes that increased technology will “play a big part” in closing gender disparities in different areas of the workforce.
“Looking at the technologies that are coming up, I think that this is likely to change because it’s less and less the case that there are occupations for women and occupations for men,” Ferrer said.
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A separate Statistics Canada research study revealed that since 2024, 51.1 per cent of Canadian women aged 20 to 49 years were not mothers — roughly one in four, for women over 40 years old.
The report says, “increased educational levels, greater participation in the labor market, changing social norms and the widespread use of contraception have contributed to diversifying life patterns, notably in terms of childbearing.”
Statistics Canada also stated that in 2025, 64 per cent of Canadians aged 25 to 64 held a college or university credential, above the average of 41 per cent across member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
OECD is an “international forum of 38 member countries that promotes economic growth, trade, and evidence-based policy standards.”
The study found that the gap is mostly driven by the Canadian college system, which found that in 2025, “25 per cent of Canadians aged 25 to 64 held a college credential—more than three times the OECD average of 7 per cent.”
From 2015 to 2025, the educational outline of Canadians aged 25 to 64 shifted towards higher levels of formal education. The proportion of those holding a bachelor’s degree rose from 20 per cent to 25 per cent.
The proportion with a master’s or doctoral degree increased from nine per cent to 14 per cent.
In addition, the number of Canadians without a high school diploma fell from 10 per cent to seven per cent, while the share with only a high school education decreased from 24 per cent to 20 per cent.
Women have long put numbered men in university and wage gap was a debunked myth a decade ago this is dribble.
Article admits they are mostly nurses or admin (lady at the front desk)
No push for men in nursing or dental hygiene, why not?
No push for underrepresented women in concrete finishing, road crews, logging, deep sea fishing, trades, or front line military positions, why not?
its because most of these bitches have useless arts degrees
And they stay unemployed
There are lots of reasons why more women have post secondary education degrees then men and they are all signs that the system is biased based purely off of gender.
Women get a preferred admittance to schools based off of gender, they get moved up the approval ladder if they are a minority, disabled in any way, or if their sexual preferences differ from the norm.
The majority of grants and bursaries are directed to and given to women. When I went to university, I could apply for like one or two grants where my friend got like 7 of them just because she was a women.
Lastly, women can take that time away from the workforce where men generally cannot. Men will generally be pushed to contribute to society faster than a woman and forced to move out on their own and support themselves. Without an education or a trade, they tend to have to work more hours in order to make ends meet or work more dangerous or demanding jobs, keeping them from moving upwards in their education.
Men don’t need to waste their times with gender studies, indigenous studies & other useless degrees that end up in the garbage, indoctrination trade or serving tables. Get skills and if you are going post secondary stay away for the arts and do engineering or medicine. As the saying goes those you can’t do – teach so sadly that’s why more liberal idiots and woman in general end up as teachers.
Women have achieved much higher education levels than men for quite a long time now. Many reasons of course, but it often comes down to women having to fight harder (thus study more and longer) to get good jobs than men.
Maybe it’s because they’re already working good paying jobs. Not all jobs require a degree and there are already enough baristas with degrees out there.
I hear that young boys are gaming so less are applying to universities. Hopefully, those apply for a trade which we need more of.
Also, my thought is and what I see amongst our friends children is the men want to earn money as soon as possible so they don’t continue their education . I don’t have any statistics on this, just an observation.
Women are more likely to take useless degrees like basket weaving of Gender Studies, while men are more likely to take degrees that you can actually get a job in.
this is a good thing
Proves Charlie Kirk was right and college is a scam. Otherwise why do men earn more on average if women hold more degrees? Of course anyone with common sense knows it’s the type of degree you get as no one cares about an art history degree vs engineer
We all know women are smarter than men right ? Just look at all the companies that have female ceo’s there all f a i l i n g because of D E I appiontments ( bud light comes to mind)but let’s keep it quiet its their time.
The men have to go out and get a job, mechanic, truck driver, oil rig worker do not need college degrees. The women have more opportunity to get a post secondary degree.
It has absolutely nothing to do with AI. and of course a university professor thinks the value of education is increasing. If you ask a truck driver, Class 1 training is more important.
GENDER STUDY DEGREES THAT ARE COMPLETELY USLESS
Why? Because more women than men have the luxury of being professional students.
And what degrees are they getting? Are they of any value in the workforce?
Why?
Girls do mature faster than boys.
But What type of degrees were they getting?
When you walk around campus department you’ll see law, engineering business, medicine etc etc filled with men quite often with men being the vast majority.
Go over to the social sciences it’s generally women being the vast majority.
Some jobs pay more than others. Go figure eh?