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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph illustrates Australia’s five types of levels of school certification by gender in 1999. One of the first things to note is that the percentage of women’s undergraduate diplomas was the highest among other rates of women’s qualifications. The proportion of women with Bachelor’s degrees was about 53% and

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for Master’s degrees and postgraduate diplomas was 40% and 30% respectively. In regard to the proportion of men’s post-school qualification, the second highest

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was the Postgraduate diploma (70%), but the men in Master’s degree

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by 10%.

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of higher education among men was higher than among women, and the percentage of males who have a specialized occupational certificate showed the highest

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among both genders in 1999.