The chart gives information a bout post-school qualifications in terms of the different
levels of further education reached by men and women in Australia in 1 999.
We can see immediately that there were substantial differences in the proportion of men
and women at different levels. The biggest gender difference is at the lowest post-school
level, where 90% of those who held a skilled vocational diploma were men, compared with
only 10% of women. By contrast, more women held undergraduate diplomas (7 0%) and
marginally more women reached degree level (55%).
At the higher levels of education, men with postgraduate diplomas clearly outnumbered
their female counterparts (70% and 30%, respectively), and also constituted 60% of
Master's graduates.
Thus we can see that more men than women hold qualifications at the lower and higher
levels of education, while more women reach undergraduate diploma level than men. The
gender difference is smallest at the level of Bachelor's degree, however.