The chart below shows the number of men and women in further education in Britain in three periods and whether they were studying full-time or part-time. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graphic shows the differences between men and women in the education field in Britain in the period from 1970 to 1991. The black bars are about full-time learning,

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those in grey are referred to part-time study. In a general overview, the first thing noticeable is that during the all period for both boys and girls, the values of grey bars are higher than those of black,

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means that the majority of the people followed a part-time study plan. As regards, the full-time bar rising constantly in the three periods of years for both categories, there is more difference in the women's field,

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a growth of almost 150.000 women between 1970/71 and 1980/81 in contraposition to that of just 100.000 men in the same years.

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, at the beginning of the

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decade of the XX century, the two groups reached an equal score.

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, the grey bars have numbers much greater than the others. As seen before,

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in

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class, the girls' field saw a constant increase that overcame the million and achieved a range of values between 1 and 1.2 million people who studied in part-time classes.

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of men groups that in 1970 reached a million people, but

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fell with a loss of almost 100.000 students,

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lightly rocketed. In conclusion, from the chart, we can understand that there isn't a big difference between males and females in the two types of schooling.