The bar chart compares the proportion of females who continued higher education in five different countries in the years of 1980 and 2015. In general, the share of entering university among women rose in almost all nations, with the exception of Australia, which remained relatively stable. Despite not experiencing changes, Australia’s percentage of women continuing their higher education remained as the dominant country in both years, along with the USA in only 2015.
Focusing on bigger figures first, in 1980, around 58% of Australian women studied at a university, slightly higher than that of French, at 50%. This was, however, distantly followed by the USA, with nearly 40%. After several years, the figure for Australia remained stable, while that of the USA soared to the same proportion as Australia in the eventual year. Lastly, France’s percentage of females who studied at the university grew negligibly to about 53% in 2015.
With regard to the remaining countries, they exhibited somewhat smaller patterns. In 1980, the UK accounted for 35%, a figure that then increased dramatically to 55% in 2015. In the meantime, South Korean women apparently did not like studying, as in the initial year it stood at a mere 15%, but the figure then doubled in the final year.