The chart below shows the different levels of post-school qualifications in Australiaand the proportion of men and women who held them in 1999.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and makecomparisons where relevant. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

The bar chart demonstrates the difference between

males

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and

females

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in their levels of post-school

qualifications

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in Australia in 1999. The data is presented in five main categories: skilled vocational

diploma

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, undergraduate

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and bachelor’s degree, and postgraduate

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and

master’s

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degree. The most prominent feature on the chart is the chasm between

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and

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in skilled vocational

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–

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almost all

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held

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qualifications

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, merely around one female out of ten held the

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;

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led the way in postgraduate

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and

master’s

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degrees – the majority of

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held

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qualifications

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(70% and 60% respectively),

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their female counterparts were far behind (merely 30% in postgraduate and 40% in

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).

On the other hand

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, undergraduate

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and bachelor’s degree showed an opposite pattern: 1. the majority of

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(70%) held undergraduate diplomas

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the number of

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was only half; 2. Slightly more than half of the

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held bachelor’s degrees,

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the number of

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fell 10% short. In conclusion,

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seemed to have led the way on the two ends of post-school

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(skilled vocational, postgraduate, and

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),

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females

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stood in the middle in the undergraduate category.