The chart shows the percentage of male and female teachers in six different types of educational setting in the UK in 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart compares the percentage of male and female teachers in different educational settings from nursery school to university. Significant differences between

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and women are evident. Women held nearly all of the teaching posts in nursery and primary schools and the majority of posts in secondary schools (approximately 56

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). They held the same percentage of posts as

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at the college level.

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, a smaller proportion of women held teaching positions at training institutes, and, at universities, female lecturers were outnumbered by males by roughly two to one. For

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, the pattern of employment was the reverse. Only 2

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of nursery school teachers and 10

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of primary teachers were

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. They were more equally represented at

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and college

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, a significantly higher percentage of university lecturers were male (roughly 70

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, the figure shows that gender is a significant factor in patterns of employment within the education sector.