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

The bar chart depicts the variety of higher education qualifications of men and women in Australia in 1999, with the data for males shown in blue and females in green.

Overall

, it can be readily seen that men take the lead in 3 of the type of diplomas,

whereas

women are the leaders in two of them, namely the undergraduate

diploma

and the bachelor's degree. The

further

education certification can be seen to have a greater proportion of male students,

for example

, the skilled vocational

diploma

, postgraduate

diploma

and masters degree. The graph is clear and concise with green and blue columnar protrusions indicating the proportion of the males and females who hold it. The largest difference is seen in the skilled vocational

diploma

, where 90% of the undertakers are male and 10% are female. The smallest difference is in the percentage of students with bachelor's degrees, where 50% of them are women and between 40-50% are men.