The following pie charts demonstrate how, on average, women’s highest degree of education changed in Someland between 1945 and 1995. Overall, the level of education available to women had significantly risen through these given 50 years as the number of females who had no schooling had been eradicated to 0%.
For each of the following sections, the average percentage of those without a high school diploma had dropped considerably. For both groups, the percentage of women who have no formal education and those who have only completed the third grade fell from a whopping 35% to 0%; the percentage of women who only completed the sixth grade fell from 15% to the same 0%; and the percentage of women who dropped out of school after the ninth grade was unchanged.
There was a noticeable improvement with regard to the graduates. The percentage of women who completed high school rose from 4% to an astounding 20%. Furthermore, the percentage of people with a bachelor’s degree rose to a whopping 50% in 1995, compared to just 1% fifty years prior. Additionally, the number of postgraduates increased from zero percent to twenty percent.
