The given chart compares the figure of research students in Australian college classified according to gender in 2001 and 2010.
Overall, the demographical figure tell us that there are a modest increase in the number of research students both years. Furthermore, the number of local research students saw significantly outnumbering the international students who following research. Additionally, the local female had accounted for the largest percentage in this chart.
In 2001, the Australian university had 33,657 local students and 5,192 overseas students. By 2010, the number of local students underwent a steady increase to 39,488. Although the quantity of foreign students had a threefold increase from 5,192 to 14,593 Australian students, this figure was still lower than local students in 2010.
Turning to gender distribution, the propotion of female and male in local students who pursuing the research were approximately balanced in 2001, at 44% and 43% respectively. Among international students, there was a marginal gender disparity with only 9% male and 4% female. By 2010, the gender gap among local students had a mild drop with 38% female and 35% male. Therefore, the percentage of overseas students had a slight increase and the propotion of male had more than female at 15% and 12% respectively. Even though, there was an upward trend in International gender students, this percentage of this figure couldn’t overcoming the percentage of local gender students.