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 chart illustrates the amount of male and female learning engineering at Australian universities in three different years, decade apart (1992, 2002, 2012).

Overall, the number of men studying engineering was significantly more than that of women over the period. However, we can observe increasing trend in the amount of female studying the same discipline.

With regard to the men, engineering was initially far more popular to this gender than to an opposite one. This fact is clearly demonstrated in year 1992, where men accounted for 14000 and women only for 2000. In the following years, 2002 and 2012, this statistics of men learning engineering decreased to 12000, but stood at the same level for both years.

On the other hand, women’s interest in engineering was not high at the beginning, only 2000 girls in 1992. But, it showed stable increase over the period given. In 2002, we see that this figure doubled reaching 4000, which was 13 of the men’s number in the same year. Furthermore, in 2012, women constituted for the half of the amount of men studying this program in a respective year, getting to 6000 females.