this data comes from barro and lee as their dataset to the best of our knowledge has the highest level of global coverage on human capital by gender data on average years of schooling for the male and female population aged over is employed 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 dataset paxton et al this data was extended back until the beginning of the th century in when the first woman mp was elected in finland