The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of men and women, who pursued academic education degrees in 5 particular countries including Japan, the United States, Switzerland, Britain, and Germany in 2001. It is obvious from the chart that the percentage of both genders in Japan was the lowest among the surveyed categories; whereas, Germany had the highest value of females and Switzerland witnessed that of males.
Turning to the detail of females, the leading position was Germany with 45% of women possessing higher education qualifications and nearly half of the last position of Japanese fellows graduated from tertiary education. United States and Switzerland followed this trend with 40% and 35%, respectively. The second lowest proportion was in Britain with three-tens women.
Regarding males, United States, Britain, and Germany had the same patterns of 35%. the proportion of men pursuing higher education in Switzerland was the highest number recorded in this category with 45% and was 15% more than that in Japan, which was the lowest.