The chart below shows the percentages of males and females with higher qualifications in five countries in 2001

The bar chart compares the shares of

men

and

women

who had university degrees in 2001 across 5 countries. (U.S., Japan,

Switzerland

,

Britain

,

Germany

)

Overall

, in

Switzerland

,

Britain

, and Japan more

males

graduated from higher education schools than

females

while

in the other 2 countries (

Germany

, and the U.S.) the percentage of

females

outnumbered that of

males

. It is

also

clear that

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similarities can be seen in

Switzerland

and

Germany

, with both of them having the largest percentage of qualified

men

and

women

respectively. The share of

men

who had higher education qualifications was the highest in

Switzerland

at 45,

while

that of

women

in the same country was slightly less at 35. The difference between the percentages of

males

and

females

was 5 in both

Britain

and

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Japan, with the latter being 5% less. 35% of the

males

graduated from universities in

Britain

while

the percentage of Japanese

men

was 30%

while

only a quarter of

females

which is the lowest figure in the graph went to universities. In

Germany

and in the United States,

on the other hand

, more

women

had higher education degrees than

men

. 45% of

females

who completed the survey in

Germany

said that they had the qualification, which was the highest share for

women

among all other countries,

while

10%

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men

reported so in the same country. The disparity between

males

and

females

was only slight at 40 and 35 respectively.