The bar chart visualises and compares the number of men and women in Britain, pursuing a further education, either full-time or part-time. The results were collected during three different time periods. Among both genders within these periods, it can be observed that a part-time education was favoured drastically over a full-time education.
Over the three periods, the number of men doing further education remained relatively stagnant. As those who took a full-time education never surpassed 200,000, whereas the number who took on a part-time education never went above 1000000. On the contrary, during the periods 1970 to 1991, the number of women who got a further education only increased, whether it was full-time or part-time. The popularity of further education only inclined, even though a part-time education was much preferred. This can be proven by how in the 1990s, both part time and full time had the highest number of women students in comparison to the previous years, with 200,000 and a little over a million respectively.
In conclusion, the graph shows how in the 1970s, women did not have the same liberty to pursue a further education, likely due to traditional values, discouraging them from it. However, as the years went by and society changed in Britain, it became widely accepted as the number of female students only increased. On the other hand, men always had that freedom. Hence, the number of male students did not vary over the years for both types of education. Overall, part-time education has a higher popularity among the men and women of Britain, likely because of the convenience and the increased free time, in comparison to a full-time education.