differ markedly in their gender composition, reflecting the sex-typing of occupations and gender stereotypes. Graduates …’ field of education is closely related with their occupational choices; therefore a better understanding of gender … disparities in this area can help to identify some of the mechanisms that lie behind gender differences in the labour market and …

. It opens with a general summary of gender differences measured outside of the PISA assessment programme and then … considers the knowledge gained about gender-related issues from PISA 2000, PISA 2003 and PISA 2006 when reading, mathematics and …

future well-being of a nation. The report also shows that it is the quality of learning outcomes, not the length of schooling …

The total fertility rate in a specific year is defined as the total number of children that would be born to each woman … net migration and unchanged mortality, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable … if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and give birth to children in alignment with the prevailing age …

The gender wage gap is defined as the difference between median earnings of men and women relative to median earnings …

Families in the OECD are changing. The nuclear family – mother and father, married with children – is becoming less … deciding to have children later in life, or not at all. …

The OECD Family Indicators database was developed to provide cross-national indicators on family outcomes and family …, and (iii) public policies for families and children (iv) child outcomes …