Test 3/Writing task 1
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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.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Model answer
The chart gives information about post-school qualifications in terms of the different levels of further education reached by men and women in Australia in 1999.
We can see immediately that there were substantial differences in the proportion ofmen and women at different levels. The biggest gender difference is at the lowest post-school level, where 90% of those who held a skilled vocational diploma were men,compared with only 10% of women. By contrast, more women held undergraduate diplomas(70%) and marginally more women reached degree level (55%).
At the higher levels of education, men with postgraduate diplomas clearlyoutnumbered their female counterparts (70% and 30%, respectively), and alsoconstituted 60% of Master’s graduates.
Thus we can see that more men than women hold qualifications at the lower and higher levels of education, while more women reach undergraduate diploma level than men. The gender difference is smallest at the level of Bachelor’s degree, however.
