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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the qualifications of females and males after school in Australia throughout the period in question. In detail, those who had a post-graduate diploma and skilled vocational diploma were dominated by the male gender with 70% and 90% respectively.

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to males, females had less percentage of these qualifications in 1999. Another important aspect of the graph is that ratio of undergraduate

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diplomas

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and bachelor’s

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degrees

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were outweighed by women (70% and almost 55% respectively),

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the proportion of men who had master’s

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degrees

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was considerably higher than women’s.

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, men were ahead of women in terms of educational qualification in Australia in 1999, and three out of five types of these were mostly attended by men.