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. You should write at least 150 words.

The bar chart demonstrates the difference between

males

and

females

in their levels of post-school

qualifications

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

diploma

, undergraduate

diploma

and bachelor’s degree, and postgraduate

diploma

and

master’s

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

males

and

females

in skilled vocational

diploma

–

while

almost all

males

held

such

qualifications

, merely around one female out of ten held the

qualifications

;

males

also

led the way in postgraduate

diploma

and

master’s

degrees – the majority of

males

held

such

qualifications

(70% and 60% respectively),

while

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

Master’s

).

On the other hand

, undergraduate

diploma

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

females

(70%) held undergraduate diplomas

while

the number of

males

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

females

held bachelor’s degrees,

while

the number of

males

fell 10% short. In conclusion,

males

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

qualifications

(skilled vocational, postgraduate, and

Master’s

),

while

females

stood in the middle in the undergraduate category.