The graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members across the faculties of a major university in 2012

The bar chart shows the proportion of men and

women

who taught in seven different

faculties

of a particular university in 2012. There was a large gender disparity in some

faculties

: engineering was dominated by male

academics

whereas

education had the highest percentage of female

academics

. Notably, 85% of the engineering teachers were male and only 15% female.

Three quarters

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of the academic staff in education were

women

, with just 25% males.

However

, other

faculties

were more balanced in their composition. In medicine, gender representation was almost equal,

while

in arts subjects slightly more than half the

academics

were female (55%). It is interesting to note that business and science had the same proportions of men and

women

, with 65% male to 35% female

academics

in those

faculties

. Law had a slightly higher percentage of

women

at 40%.

Although

the

faculties

of engineering,

busines

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business

, science and law were still primarily

male- dominated

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in 2012,

women

made up half the faculty of medicine and were predominated in education and arts.