The chart below shows the different levels of post-school qualifications in Australia and the proportion of men and women who held them in 1999.

The bar chart compares post-school educational attainment among

men

and

women

in Australia in 1999. As a whole,

men

were ahead of

women

in terms of their highest educational qualifications in Australia, and three out of five types of post-school educational qualifications, namely - post-graduate

diploma

, skilled vocational

diploma

and masters degree, were mostly attended by

men

. In

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, those who had a post-graduate

diploma

and Master's degree were dominated by 70% and 60%

men

respectively. The ratio of

women

who had post-graduation

qualification

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was much lower. Another important aspect of the graph is that there was a remarkable number of

men

, 90%, who took up a 'skilled vocational

diploma

course' which left

women

to only just a tenth. Since

men

continued their education and achieved post-graduate qualifications, females with an undergraduate

diploma

much outweighed the ratio of males.

Finally

, the proportion of

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whose highest education was a bachelor's degree was about 45%,

whereas

the

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ratio was somewhat more than that.