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.

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.
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The given bar chart compares the number of male and female graduates
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five types of degrees offered in Australia in the year 1999. As can be seen clearly from the chart the most noticeable feature is that the skilled vocational
diploma
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presented the highest deviation between the genders.
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, the male holders constituted the overwhelming majority(90%)
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their female counterparts amounted to 10% of the graduates. Regarding the other levels of post-school qualifications, the undergraduate and postgraduate diplomas exhibited an opposite pattern. More specifically, in the former one, almost three-quarters of the graduates were women
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in the latter one, females made up only about a third of the alumni.
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, the proportion of males that pursued a postgraduate
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was significantly higher than that of
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undergraduate males, standing at 70% and 30% respectively. The genders were more in agreement regarding the rest of the levels of higher education. A slight difference was noted in the master's degree for women and men, accounting for 40% and 60%
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the bachelor's degree was almost equally obtained by both genders, with an approximate proportion of 50%.
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, post-secondary qualifications were slightly more prevalent among men,
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women had a significant advantage in the undergraduate
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and the greatest gender gap was observed in the skilled vocational
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