The given bar chart provides information on the proportion of males and females who studied engineering at universities in Australia between the years 1992 and 2012 at 10-year intervals.
Overall, it can be seen that the number of men was considerably higher than the women over the timeframe.
It is clear that the number of male students dropped slightly from 14000 in 1992 to 12000 in 2002, and then remained constant throughout the following decade. However, the number of female students grew steadily by 2000 each decade, starting from 2000.
Men continued to make up the majority of students in engineering while the proportion of women increased sharply. In 1992, there was one woman in every seven men, but by 2012 this had narrowed to one woman in every two men.
There was also a slow rise in the total number of engineering students from 16000 to 18000 in this period.
