The bar chart compares the number of students by gender and type of education who were enrolled in continuing education in Britain between 1970 and 1991.
Overall, there was a higher proportion of women than men studying full-time and part-time in all periods except the first one.
In detail, in the first period, the number of part-time male students saw a significant increase, with 1,000 students compared to just under 200,000 full-time students. In the following period, the number of part-time students slightly decreased to approximately 850,000, while full-time students experienced a slow increase to around 200,000. In the 1990/91 period, the number of students in both types of education gradually increased by almost 100,000 compared to the previous year.
Regarding women students across all periods, there was a consistent increase in their numbers. In the first period, there were just over 600,000 part-time students and just under 200,000 full-time students. In the 1980/81 period, the number of women students showed a slight growth in both types of education. However, in the last period, there was a rapid increase in the number of women, with over 1,000,000 part-time students and around 250,000 full-time students