Band 6+: The bar chart below shows the number of men and women studying engineering at Australian universities. Summarise the information in the chart by selecting and reporting the main features. Make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph enumerates the number of engineering students compared by gender at Australian universities from 1992 to 2012. In general, male students dominated the number of students throughout the years in the engineering faculty at Australian universities. In addition, while the number of male students remained stable, the number of female students saw an increase trend.

As can be seen in the chart, Overall, the number of male students studying engineering remained steady at around 15,000 students in Australian universities. In 1992, the number of male students was almost 15,000 compared to the female students, below 5,000 students that year. However, a decade later, in 2002, women students were on the upward trend, with almost 5,000 students studying in the university.

At the end of the period, in 2012, the number of female students studying in engineering faculty also showed an upward trend, with more than 5,000 women studying in Australian universities.