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

The bar graph compares the percentage of different qualifications acquired by Australian males and females after graduating from school in 1999.

Overall

, out of five areas of study, the biggest discrepancy in

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of

men

and

women

was observed in

'Skilled

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Vocational Diploma' category,

whereas

the lowest gap was in Bachelor's

Degree

.

Although

females outnumbered males in Undergraduate Diploma and Bachelor's

Degree

qualifications, the other categories were dominated by

men

. It is evident that

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Vocational Diploma' was by far the most popular discipline of study chosen by

men

, comprising a hefty 90%. In stark contrast,

this

category was least popular among their female counterparts accounting for a mere 10

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- 9 times less.

However

, Bachelor's

Degree

was almost equally popular for either

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- around 45% and 50

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for

men

and

women

respectively. The figure for Masters and Postgraduate

degree

students did not show much difference regarding both genders, around 60-70 and 30-40 per cent for males and females respectively.

However

, a difference by half can be observed in Undergraduate Studies comparing

men

(about 35%) and their

women

counterparts (approximately 70%), which was the highest figure for

women

.