ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on changes in women's educational enrollments worldwide since the 1960s. It shows that, while female educational enrollments have dramatically increased in most countries, these increases have occurred in the absence of specific policies focused on bringing greater educational equity to women. It also focuses on changes in enrollment, which in many countries have closed the gap between male and females in education, even at the tertiary level, have had little effect on women's income or their participation in the paid labor force. More women than ever before have had access to education. Despite this the economic outcomes of education have not been the same for women as they have for men. Inequality in educational enrollments between males and females is greater in higher education than it is at the primary and secondary levels. The sex segregation of the workforce by occupation not surprisingly parallels the types of preparation females versus males receive in secondary and post-secondary education.
