The bar charts illustrate the number of men and women studying full-time or part-time education in further education in a particular country across three separate periods: 1970/71, 1980/81, and 1990/91.
Overall, females witnessed a progressive increase in all types of education by varying degrees, while the opposite was true for the number of male educators in full-time education over the given period. Notably, the number of full-time educators outpaced that of part-time education in both males and females throughout the given time frame.
Looking first at the number of full-time educators in males and females, while the former witnessed an erratic trajectory, the latter increased throughout the period. Initially, male educators recorded roughly 1,000,000 people studying full-time, having more than 300 individuals in comparison with that of females. A decade later, the number of men studying full-time decreased to 800,000 before recovering to nearly 900,000 educators in 1990/91. In contrast, females witnessed an increase of 400,000 people educating full-time from 700,000 educators in 1970/71 to 800,000, and over 1,100,000 in 1980/81, and 1990/91 respectively. Due to its increase, females far surpassed males to claim higher figures in full-time educators by the end of the period.
Shifting our focus to the remaining sector, the number of all genders studying part-time increased over a thirty-year period. At the beginning of the outset, male educators stood at around 100,000 people learning part-time. Afterwards, its number of educators grew gradually by 50,000 people from 1970/71 to 1990/91, recording 200,000 part-time educators in 1990/91. Likewise, females experienced a rapid increase in the number of part-time educators. After having nearly 20,000 educators in 1970/71, the number of female part-time educators increased significantly to mostly 200,000, representing a ten-fold increase compared to that of the year 1970/71.