The chart shows the percentage of women and men in one Asian country who passed when they took their driving test between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar chart depicts the proportions of

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and

male

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males

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that obtained

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driving licenses in a country in Asia in a

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period.

Overall

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cursory glance

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the graph that,

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both genders show

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increasing

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participating and passing the driving

test

since 1980,

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females

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percentage

than

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males

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. Looking into details,

it is clear that

in

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period (1980, 1990, and 2000) the proportion of women who took and succeeded

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driving

test

rose from around 50% to nearly 70%, two times higher than the

percentage

of male

test

takers.

On the other hand

, the driving

test

taken and passed by males started at approximately 30% to 50% between 1980 to 2000, almost 20% lower than that of females. In 2010, both men and women experienced different

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in taking the driving

test

. Women

percentage

slightly decreased to 65%,

while

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percentage

of men remained constant at 49%.