Band 6+: The chart below shows the different levels of post-school qualifications in Australia and the proportion of men and women who held them in 1999.

The bar graph illustrates the percentage of men and women in different levels of post-school qualifications in Australia in 1999.

Overall, there was a high proportion of males with skilled vocational diploma, post-graduate diploma, and master’s degree as compared to females at 1999. Additionally, a high number of females were recorded to have undergraduate diploma and bachelor’s degree in Australia.

In detail, males with skilled vocational diploma in Australia was all-tume high at nearly 90% while females with the same qualification was only 10% in 1999. Moreover, 7 out of 10 males had a postgraduate diploma, whereas, only 3 out of 10 females had the same degree. Furthermore, the percentage of males was 20% greater than females with master’s degree at 60% inthe same year.

Another notable observation is that females with undergraduate diploma was twice the percentage of males at 70%. On top of that, females with bachelor’s degree was just over 50%, slightly higher than males in Australia with the same post-school qualification at more than 40%.