In the context of International Women’s Day, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) jointly launched the World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education. Featuring over 120 maps, charts and tables on a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators, the Atlas draws attention to continuing gender disparities, especially in terms of the educational pathways and progression of girls and boys. It finds, for example, that in those countries where girls have access to primary education, they tend to outperform boys, with boys experiencing higher repetition and drop out rates. On the other hand, the report notes that men continue to dominate the highest levels of study, accounting for 56% of PhD graduates and 71% of researchers. (...)

The article:
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3786

The Atlas:
http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/gender-atlas-2012-web2-en.pdf