NOT only are girls outperforming boys on A-level grades but they are more likely to be working six months after graduation than men, a new survey reveals.
Research by The Higher Education Statistics Agency found that three-quarters of last summer’s female graduates (73 per cent) are now employed full-time or part-time, working unpaid, or combining work with further study, compared to 68 per cent of men.
Almost 222,000 graduates were polled asking what they were doing six months after graduation. The students had finished their first degrees.
While the proportion of men and women who were in full-time work was almost the same – 52.5 per cent of women and 51.2 per cent of men, the survey found women were more likely to take part-time jobs or combine work with study.
Just over ten per cent of the women were in part-time jobs, compared to 7.8 per cent of men. Around 8.8 per cent of women were combining part-time work with study, compared to 7.7 per cent of men. Slightly more than one per cent of both genders were in voluntary work.
Just over ten per cent of the men said they were unemployed or had not yet started a job, compared to 6.5 per cent of the women.
Men were more likely to go on to further study after they graduated – 16per cent of men did so, compared to 15 per cent of women.
On average, 8.1 per cent of all graduates were unemployed six months after graduation, compared to 5.6 per cent the previous year.
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