Tertiary Qualifications By Gender (NZ)

The bar graph represents the number of males and females who hold each type of qualification in 2005 in NewZealand. Overall, Trade Certificate is one of the highest qualifications that are held by men, which accounted at just under ninety per cent. On top of that, Diploma is the highest number of qualifications held by women, which accounted for just over sixty per cent. According to the bar graph it is obvious that Trade Certificate and Master/PhD have a big difference by the percent between men and women with around forty to eighty percent gap. While Diploma, Undergraduate Degree, and Postgraduate Diploma are not different that much between men and women who held those certificates just lower than twenty-five per cent of the gap between men and women. In addition, most of the qualifications categories men have have the higher percentage than women by around double of the percentage, such as Trade Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters/PhD. While women have the higher percentage in two categories only which are Diploma and Undergraduate degree.