The chart illustrates the number of males and females participating in further training in the UK during the years 1970/71, 1980/81, and 1990/91, and distinguishes between full-time and part-time learning.
Overall, more men attended further education than women, although the number of women increased substantially over the given period. Additionally, the preference for full-time education rose for both sexes throughout these years.
In terms of part-time continuing education, 1,000,000 males participated in 1970/71; however, this figure decreased over the subsequent years, ending at nearly 900,000 in 1990/91. In contrast, women had just under 700,000 attendees in 1970/71, which rose significantly to around 1,100,000(one million one hundred thousand )by 1990/91.
With regard to full-time further training, a similar trend can be observed for both genders, where the number of male students more than doubled and the number of female students quadrupled. In 1970/71, approximately 100,000 males were in higher education, while the female enrollment was about half that number. Following this, both genders experienced considerable improvements in enrollment, reaching more than 200,000 for each sex by the end of the period.