The chart below shows the number of men and women in further education in Britain in three periods and whether they were studiying full-time or part-time.

The bar chart illustrates the

number

of

men

and women who continued their full-time or part-time education in Britain between 1970 and 1991. Looking from an

overall

perspective, thousands of people from both genders who study part-time outweigh full-time significantly over three periods from 1970 to 1991. The

number

of women students who applied for part-time education in Britain increased exponentially over time from around 700,000 in 1970-71 to approximately 1,000,000 in 1990-91.

However

, over the thirty years of the data collection period, the

number

of male students varied, ending up at around 900,000 in 1991 from a starting point of one million in 1970. The

number

of

men

who joined full-time education almost doubled from around 100,000 in 1970-71 to nearly 200,000 in 1990-91. For women, the tendency was rising more sharply than the

men

during the first decade, but from 1981 to 1991 the tendency became much slower and made

up

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