This pattern has received less policy attention than the race - based participation gap, and may point to issues with how schools identify students for special education. (educationnext.org)
A briefing note prepared for Finance Minister Bill Morneau estimates that closing the labour - market participation gap between women and men by half over 15 years would raise the country's potential long - term economic growth by an average of 0.25 percentage points per year over that period. (canadianbusiness.com)
There is a consistent participation gap in terms of gender: in 2016/17, women made up only 9.4 % of A Level examination entries in computing, 21.2 % in physics, and 39 % in mathematics, and just 8 % of starts on STEM apprenticeship courses. (educationbusinessuk.net)