More women have a university education

In Canada, the proportion of women aged 40 to 44 who have a university degree more than doubled in 20 years, climbing from 11% in 1986 to 23% in 2006.

Statistics suggest that the higher this proportion, the more common childbearing will become for women in their 30s and 40s.

In 2006, 14% of women aged 40 to 44 who had a bachelor's degree were mothers of a young child, compared with 6% of women of the same age who had a high school diploma or less. For women who had a doctorate, the proportion was 20%.

About 30% of women aged 40 to 44 who had young children were in a "professional" occupation, that is an occupation that requires a bachelor's degree or higher.

Women who were health professionals in the 40-to-44 age group were particularly likely to have young children. In 2006, this was true of 25% of female specialist physicians, the highest proportion for an individual occupation in Canada.

In 2006, the median personal income of women aged 40 to 44 who did paid work and whose children were all under 5 years old was $33,700 after taxes. This was higher than the median personal income of $28,700 for those whose children were at least 12 years of age.

Women who were born in countries outside of Canada were more likely than Canadian-born women to have a university degree and to be older mothers of young children. In 2006, 32% of them had a university degree, compared with 19% of Canadian-born women. The proportion that had a pre-school child was also higher: 13% compared with 8% for Canadian-born women.

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