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 graph illustrates the percentage of both male and female students who went to Australia in 1999 for different certifications after completing school.

Overall

, most men went for skilled vocational degrees

whereas

, most women opted for undergraduate diplomas, contrary to that, the least amount of women showed any interest in skill-related education,

similarly

, men did not prefer to study undergraduate education at university. 90% of the significant majority of the male student choose to study skill-based programs, and only 35% of them did undergraduate at university.

However

, 70% showed interest towards postgraduate diplomas but bachelor's and master's had values of 45% and 60 % respectively.

In contrast

, a small fraction of almost 10% of the females studied skilled diploma and the highest proportion went for an undergraduate degree, 70%.

Therefore

, The Bachelor's program showed the second highest population which is 50% but the Masters's and Postgraduate certificates had the intermediate portion of female students which is approximately 40% and 30% respectively