Band 9: The chart illustrates the percentage of male and female executives in six different types of profession across the UK in 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where necessary.

The given bar diagram compares the numbers of males and females who were involved in different kinds of jobs in the United Kingdom in 2007.

Overall, it is clear that the numbers of men and women varied significantly according to the professions. There were more female teachers, therapists, and advertisers, but men had dominance in the construction, law, and science fields, whereas they were equal in numbers as journalists.

Moving into the details of the graph, in 2007, 90% of the construction workers were men, whereas their proportion in jobs as advertisers, journalists, scientists, and lawyers ranged from 40–60%. Surprisingly, only 10–20% of the total were male in the case of teaching and therapists.

In contrast to that, women were more active as teachers and therapists, as they covered 80–90% of their respective job fields. Moreover, the advertising, journalism, science, and law fields had female populations between 40–60%, which was similar to men, but in the profession of construction only one tenth of the people were female.