Japan's education
Does gender gap exist in Japan's education?
To know gender gap in Japan's education, we need to watch Global Gender Gap.
In Global Gender Gap about Japan's education announcement in 2018, It was 0.994.
Since it is close to 1, it is evaluated that there is no gender gap in primary and secondary education.
However, higher education enrollment rates, which affect women's lifetime wages and financial independence, are lower than in 2017.
Showing an index of 0.595 in the economic field and 0.081 in the political field,
we can't see disparity in compulsory education, but we can find
there are some disparity in the society.
Gender disparity in higher education in Japan
Let's take a look at the gender gap in higher education in Japan as of 2018.
Before watching the university, which is a higher education, the enrollment rate of upper secondary education (high school) at the premise stage is 96.3% for men and 96.9% for women, which is slightly higher for women.
However, when it comes to university enrollment rates, there is a difference of more than 7%, with 55.6% for men and 48.2% for women.
8.9% of all women go on to junior college, it becomes 57.1% when combined with the university entrance rate.
The rate of enrollment in vocational schools is 18.9% for men and 25.8% for women, which also shows that women are high.
On the other hand, after graduating from university (undergraduate), 5.9% of women and 14.7% of men go on to graduate school, which shows
there is a gender bias depending on the field of study.