The chart above 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.

The bar chart demonstrates the

number

of males and females engaged in

further

education

over

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Britain

for

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the course of 30 years. It shows whether they were studying full-time or part-time and is divided into three periods.

Overall

, the

number

of men and

women

studying part-time outnumbered those studying full-time by a significant margin.

While

both modes were relatively similar regardless of

sexes

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, there was some variance, especially in

the

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1990, when the

number

of

women

studying part-time increased substantially. With regard to full-time education, male students approximately doubled from around 100,000 in 1970 to over 200,000 by the end of 1991. For

women

, the trajectory was less consistent, rising sharply in the first decade and

then

tapering off to an almost identical level to that of men in the 1990s. The

number

of males engaged in part-time study fluctuated, dipping from one million to 900,000 over three decades. Meanwhile, the

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females’

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part-time

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study steadily increased from nearly 800,000 in 1970 to above a million in 1991. Needless to say, the

number

of

women

who took part in part-time

further

education surpassed that of men in 1991.