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Gains in post-secondary education (Talent index) in the last decade were observed in many Arctic regions.
For example, in the NWT 47.6% of population over the age of 15 years old had certificate, diploma
or degree beyond high school in 2009, versus 46.5% in 1999. In 2009 there were 3.3 times more
Aboriginal people with university education than in 1999 (NWT Bureau of Statistics 2014).
Feminization of CC is the consistent trend of the last decades. Women dominate the realm of
education in most of the Arctic. Already in the 1990s