however from onwards unemployment has decreased for men but not for women by the last quarter of across the oecd the unemployment rate was around for both men and women ilo oecd b although the gap between men s and women s employment rate narrows considerably with higher educational attainment on average the employment rate for tertiaryeducated women is still percentage points lower than that of men figure the difference in employment rates between tertiaryeducated men and women is particularly marked in chile the czech republic japan korea mexico and hirkey where it is as high as percentage points