The following bar chart illustrates the proportion of British men and women studying full-time or part-time in graduate studies for three time periods(1970-1971, 1980-1981, and 1990-1991).
Overall, part-time education is significantly higher for both genders than full-time studies, and its rate is the highest among women between 1990 and 1991. Women also participated the least in full-time education between 1970 and 1971. As opposed to men, more women took part in part-time studies over the three time periods.
Among women, the number of students for both program types increased from about 700 thousand to almost 1100 thousand and from nearly 50 thousand to approximately 200 thousand, respectively for part-time and full-time education.
Meanwhile, there was a slight reduction in the proportion of male participants in part-time programs from 1000 thousand in 1970-1971 to nearly 900 thousand in 1990-1991. However, similar to their counterpart, the number of men willing to attend full-time education went up from 100 thousand in 1970-1971 to slightly above 200 thousand in 1990-1991.