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 given bar chart compares the various types of qualifications of academic history in Australia and who held the number of boys and girls in 1999.

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, men tended to earn substantially more

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than women in each of the qualifications where both participated. Both

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qualifier rates had some fluctuations.

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skilled vocational diploma female students

initially

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had a lower rate, in outraced males

at the end

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of the period. Male post-school qualification was about 90% of the graph, being higher than female rate approximately 80% to skilled diploma vocational.

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, the Undergraduate degree and bachelor's degrees rose the 70 per

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and 50 per

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of female

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, which were the lowest earned degrees by male students, with percentages of almost 35 per

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and 45 per

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. In the

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two post-school degrees in which both men and women compete, the postgraduation diploma and the master’s degree, there was a strikingly similar trend. The male degree was almost double that of female

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.