Latin America, the Caribbean as well as Central Asia show an increase in female enrolments and in a number of countries, a female-to-male ratio being two to one. North America and Europe show there are a third more women than men on campus. In Canada, women make up 55% of masters students. A connection has been established between the high proportion of women in Canadian Universities and poor performances of boys in high school. It is found amongst school exam results that 46% of girls earned an average result of 80% and above while 32% of male students earned results of the same standard. Similar situations have been found in Australia too.

Enrolment in Arab states show equality in both genders which shows a great increase in females furthering their education. Reports show that if the trend continues, women will soon take the lead in that region as well. Saudi Arabia plans to launch the world’s largest women’s university in 2010. Enrolment in the Arab states may be high but female employment remains extremely low.

South African government statistics show 59% of graduates were women despite them only representing 55.5% of all enrolments. Women began making remarkable gains in South African higher education after the first democratic election. By this time, the number of female students grew by 5.5% a year against the overall undergraduate enrolment growth of 4.9%

Ireland’s seven universities show a female majority of 59% to 41%. Irish lawyers, pharmacists, dentists, doctors and physiotherapists in the future will be female dominated occupations.

Though Men still dominate fields of engineering, manufacturing and construction, there is no doubt that women are planning to leap into the professional world. A third of the world’s countries have achieved parity and it is fair to say the rise in female graduates will push to take a greater place in the world job market.