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

The given bar graph illustrates five different educational levels attained by both men and women of Australia in 1999.

Overall, men dominated the qualifications in three levels: vocational, postgraduate diplomas, and master’s degrees, whereas more women held undergraduate diplomas and bachelor’s degrees. Women seemed to hold undergraduate diplomas the most, whereas men in vocational diplomas.

There were one-tenth of female students taking a vocational diploma, and the rest were held by male students. On the contrary, undergraduate students had 7/10 women taking it, while only 30% of men took it. Additionally, there was only around a 10% difference in the number of both genders taking a bachelor’s degree, with more women than men. On the other hand, men dominated women, with 40% more of them taking a postgraduate diploma, with men taking 0.7 of the qualification. Moreover, 60 percent of men held a master’s degree, meanwhile women held 4/10 of it.