The bar chart shows the proportion of men and women who taught / worked in seven different faculties of a particular university in 2012.
Although the faculties of engineering,business,science and law were still primarily male-dominated in 2012, women made up half the faculty of medicine and were predominant in education and arts.
There was a large gender disparity in some faculties: engineering was dominated by male academics whereas education had the highest percentage of female academics. Notably,= It is noticeable that 85% of the engineering teachers were male and only 15% female. Three quarters(75%) of the academic staff in education were women, with just 25% males.
However, other faculties were more balanced in their composition. In medicine, gender representation was almost equal, while in arts subjects slightly more than half the academics were female(55%). It is interesting to note that business and science had the same proportions of men and women, with 65% male to 35% female academics in those faculties. Law had a slightly higher percentage of men at 60%.
