in out of countries and economies more men than women were able to correctly answer at least five questions as indicated by the blue bars gender differences in financial knowledge recorded in the survey as indicated by the grey diamonds were generally also in favour of men among the ten countries for which comparable data over time is available albania and poland reported a statistically significant reduction in gender differences in financial knowledge while in the other countries gender differences have not changed significantly table a in online annex a when asked how they would rate their own knowledge about financial matters compared to other adults in their country men are more likely than women to report above average knowledge in countrieseconomies out of even after comparing men and women with similar levels of testbased financial knowledge