The given line chart provides an insight into the number of female and male students who graduated from Canadian universities between 1992 and 2007.
On the whole, it can clearly be seen that the proportion of university graduates witnessed an upward trend during 15 years. In addition, the number of female graduates rose more substantially than that of males.
A more detailed look at the graph reveals that there was a slight growth of 8,000 males and about 6,000 females from 1992 to 1995. In the following five years, the quantity of university graduates for women fell, then flattened out at almost 100,000 people. Meanwhile, in terms of graduates from universities in Canada, the figure for men saw a marginal variation.
After the year 2000, graduate numbers enjoyed a remarkable climb and reached the peak at roughly150,000 females and over 90,000 males in 2007. Accordingly, the gap between both proportions of female and male graduates was more and more widening. Specifically, the early 1990s observed a difference of 30,000 graduates between men and women, whereas the late 2000s experienced a discrepancy of approximately 55,000 graduates between the two genders.