The bar chart illustrates the various levels of school following qualifications in Australia, and compares the percentage of males and females who held them in 1999.
Overall, it is clear that the number of males surpassed in most of the categories, especially in skilled occasional diploma with a significant difference between genders. Wealth females exceeded in bachelors degree and undergraduate diploma.
Turning to the details, skilled vocational diploma was substantially more popular among men over woman, with 90% and 10% respectively. Moreover, the way diploma and masters degree percentage of males outweighted, by 40% in former and by 20% in latter.
However, in categories followed by school, quantity of women were gradually greater than that of man. Firstly, bachelors degree where the percentage of females was marginally greater than the percentage of males. While first one accounted for approximately 55% of the students, the latter had the remaining 45%. Secondly, undergraduate diploma owners, where the number of woman is over twice as high as a number of men, with approximately 70%.
