Hank 瀚克

The bar chart provided illustrates not only 5 different levels of post-school qualifications, namely skilled vocational diploma, undergraduate diploma, bachelor's degree, postgraduate diploma, and master's degree but also the percentage of men and women who held them in Australia in 1999. From an overall perspective, it is apparent that three out of five of the post-school qualifications were administered more by men, whereas, in terms of undergraduate diploma and bachelor's degree, women had more proportion than men.

Looking at the figures in more detail, we can observe that the qualifications which men had more proportions were skilled vocational diploma, postgraduate diploma, and master's degree. Men held almost all of the skilled vocational diplomas, 90 percent specific, compared to women's 10%. Moreover, when it comes to postgraduate diplomas, men held nearly 70 percent of the total, which meant women had 30%. What's more, the gap in proportions of master's degrees between two genders was smaller than the qualifications mentioned above. Men held 60 percent of the total, slightly larger than women.

In contrast, women held 70 percent of the undergraduate diploma and men held the rest of the proportion, which was the opposite situation of postgraduate diploma. Last but not least, in terms of bachelor's degree, men and women almost equally shared the whole proportion, females possessed a little more than 50 percent of the total.