Gender balance across T Level pathways
The insight
T Levels are sharply split by sex: Education and Early Years is 96% female while Building Services Engineering is only 2%. Caring pathways skew heavily female; construction, engineering and digital heavily male.Female share of students, by pathway
% of students who are female, 2025/26 · pink = majority female, blue = majority male
A sharply gendered picture
T Level pathways are strongly split by sex. Education and Early Years is 96% female, while Building Services Engineering is just 2% female. The caring pathways — Education & Early Years, Health — are overwhelmingly female; construction, engineering and digital pathways are overwhelmingly male.
This mirrors long-standing patterns in the wider workforce, and is one of the clearest equity stories in the T Level data. The DfE records this characteristic as sex (female/male); totals exclude students whose sex was not recorded.