Okay. I'll try my best to convey what the slides would look like, were you able to see them. Honestly, some of them are just text slides, so we're not too far behind.
For the purposes of this presentation, I'll focus on four high-level topics. The first will be post-secondary access and attainment. The second will be wage and occupational differences. The third will be women with low income. The fourth will be retirement preparedness for women.
Slide 3 presents selected results for women in the area of post-secondary access and attainment. My colleague from Status of Women also gave some similar results. Following a long-trending increase in graduation rates, women now complete post-secondary at higher rates than men, and are also well represented in co-op programs. Particular interest is often paid to the share of women in STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—partly because it could reflect an influence of gender stereotypes about female and male capabilities that steer girls and boys, women and men, toward different educational and career paths.
Slide 4 looks at how young women are less likely to choose STEM studies than men. A recent study recorded high school math scores from the year 2000 for a cohort of Canadian girls and boys. They were then followed up 10 years later to determine if these mathematics scores were related to STEM program choice at university.