The graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members across the faculties of a major university in 2012. Summarise information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparison where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of man and female staff who work per university faculty during 2012.

Overall

, we can see that

while

education has the highest percentage of women employed, engineering is the most common field for men. Looking at the graph, arts and education are dominated by female staff. It is interesting to see that the number of women teaching education is much higher than men, with 72% and 25% respectively. Female teachers are more common in arts,

although

, the gap between the number of males and females is smaller.

On the other hand

, male-dominated fields of teaching include engineering, business, law and science. In fact, these figures almost doubled the female ones by 20-30% each.

However

, the most dramatic difference occurred in the engineering sector whose percentage of male staff is 85%,

while

the female part only accounts for 18%.