This data comes from Barro and Lee (2010), as their dataset - to the best of our knowledge - has the highest level of global coverage on human capital by gender.11 Data on average years of schooling for the male and female population aged over 25 is employed.12 To highlight the educational differences between men and women, the ratio of women’s to men’s average years of schooling is used. The data on the percentage of women in parliament comes largely from the Women in Parliament 1945-2003 dataset (Paxton et al., This data was extended back until the beginning of the 20th century in 1907 when the first woman MP was elected in Finland.