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below shows the number of men and women in further education in Britain in three periods and whether they were studying full-time or part-time.

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The chart shows how many male and female
students
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 were studying full-time or part-time in
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 education in Britain between 1970
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71 and 1990
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91. Overall, the vast majority of
students
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 were part-time and there were more
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 in 1990
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91 than in 1970
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71, especially women. Looking
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 at part-time versus full-time study, it is clear that most
students
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 were part-time in each year shown in the chart. The
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 of part-time
students
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 was over 700,000 per gender per year, going as high as 1.1 million, whereas for full-time study the
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 was between 70,000 and 250,000. Moving on to look at gender differences, numbers of female
students
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 increased in both full-time and part-time education whereas the
number
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 of males in part-time education decreased.
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, there were 70,000 full-time and about 750,000 part-time female
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 in 1970
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71, but by 1990
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91 these numbers had risen to over 200,000 full-time and around 1.1 million part-time. The
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 of male full-time
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also
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 went up from around 100,000 in 1970
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71 to over 200,000 in 1990
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91, whereas for part-time study their numbers went down from 1 million in 1970
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71 to around 850,000 in 1980
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81, before rising slightly to about 900,000 in 1990
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91.

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