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There are more women at Sri Lanka’s universities – but they remain spaces dominated by men

Now is not the time for complacency. Universities should produce critical thinkers – and questioning gendered norms and expectations is a crucial part of this.

By Kaushalya Perera
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University students at protest in Sri Lanka, 2014.

University students at protest in Sri Lanka, 2014. Photo: Flickr/Vikalpa/Groundviews. Some rights reserved.

In Sri Lanka, women are more educated than men. This has been a growing trend, most stark in higher education. In 2015, 60% of enrolment in state higher education institutions was female, and 68.5% of graduating students were female. Most disciplines currently produce a higher percentage of women graduates with notable exceptions in engineering (21.5% female) and computer science (41.8% female).

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