The British magazine The Economist reported the best evidence to support this statement: in the United States, there are 140 female college students for every 100 male students; in Sweden, the ratio is 150 to 100. According to data from the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, in 2001 there were 612,000 female students in post-secondary schools in Taiwan, or 50.5 % of the total number of students.
在美國，對應 100 名男性大學生，就有 140 名女生；在瑞典，大學生男女比更是高達 100 比 150；而在台灣，行政院主計處的資料顯示，2001 年，女性高等教育在校學生數為 61.2 萬人，占 50.5％，超過男性。