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While it is well-documented what young women do during their gap years, young men are more absent from the statistics.

Women spend their gap years traveling and attending folk high schools, while men have different priorities

Tegning: Claus Nørregaard. Animation: Tomas Østeergren
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Over the past few weeks, nearly 50,000 young graduates have danced through the summer, sipped champagne, and received countless congratulations.

If the new graduates follow the pattern of previous years, only a tenth of them will proceed directly to higher education. The rest will take one or more gap years.

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