Gender differences are increasing in higher education
In all Norwegian municipalities, there is a larger proportion of women with higher education than men, according to Statistics Norway.
“We see that gender equality is slowly moving in the right direction, but in higher education, we see that the gender differences are increasing,” says equality coordinator Hanna Stangebye Arnesen at Statistics Norway.
Among both women and men, the level of education is increasing, but the proportion of women with higher education is increasing faster than men. This is shown by Statistics Norway's annual survey of how equality is progressing in Norway's municipalities.
In more than half of the municipalities, fewer than 20 per cent of men have higher education, while the same only applies to one municipality for women.
In two municipalities, the majority of men have higher education, while the majority of women have higher education in seven municipalities.
The proportion of female managers is also increasing in all counties, and in 2022, 38 per cent of all managers in Norway were women. However, the differences are significant between municipalities, and the proportion of female managers varies from 20 to 63 per cent.
At the same time, the gap between men and women's gross income is gradually narrowing, but on a national basis, women's gross income is on average NOK 190,500 (18,000 USD) lower than men's.
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Translated by Alette Bjordal Gjellesvik
Read the Norwegian version of this article on forskning.no
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