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

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who taught in seven different

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

faculties

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: engineering was dominated by male

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whereas

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education had the highest percentage of female

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

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of the academic staff in education were

women

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, with just 25% males.

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, other

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

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in arts subjects slightly more than half the

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

women

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, with 65% male to 35% female

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in those

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. Law had a slightly higher percentage of

women

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at 40%.

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the

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of engineering,

busines

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business

, science and law were still primarily

male- dominated

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in 2012,

women

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