Women in Canada are highly educated overall. They are among the most educated in the world and are more likely than men to hold a high school or postsecondary qualification. A majority of women (66.7%) aged 25 to 64 years held a postsecondary qualification in 2016, while 23.3% had a high school diploma as their highest qualification, and 10.0% had no certificate, diploma or degree. However, women's educational attainment varied by the remoteness of the communities where they lived, where the level of remoteness of their communities were determined by their proximity (or distance) to population centres as a proxy for services accessibility, as well as the population size of these communities. A new study examines the educational characteristics of women in communities of different degrees of remoteness.
May 10, 2024
