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

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

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main feature and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar graph illustrates the
number
of genders in varying departments (
such
as Business, Law or Medicine) within an institution in 2012.
Overall
, the
percentage
of men was higher in four out of the seven faculties
thus
leading them to be greater in
number
than their opposite sex.
Firstly
, men held the highest
percentage
at just above 80% in Engineering
while
the lowest for Education at around 25%.
Also
, In every other faculty it was above 50%,
however
for Arts, the
percentage
was below 50. Even
then
, the
number
of males
were
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greater
in
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on
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average than the
number
of females within the institution. In comparison, women dominated the Education sector with more than 70% and were higher in value over males in the Arts and Medicine department as well with 55% and 50%, respectively. Meanwhile, four out of the seven faculties still hired less than 50% of women. The lowest
percentage
was under 20 and it was in the Engineering field.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • gender distribution
  • faculty
  • academic staff
  • proportion
  • disparity
  • trends
  • significance
  • broader societal trends
  • gender equality
  • university environment
  • implications
  • predominantly
  • minority
  • skewed
  • equal representation
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