The table provides information about the percentages of female students, students whose first language is not English, and those born outside Australia across six university departments in 2009.
Overall, the Humanities and Education departments had the highest proportions of female students, while Information Technology and Engineering recorded the lowest. In contrast, the departments with fewer female students had much higher percentages of students from non-English backgrounds and those born overseas.
In the Humanities department, 72% of students were female, while the figures for non-English speakers and overseas-born students were significantly lower, at 12% and 20% respectively. A similar pattern can be seen in Education, where females made up 68%, compared to only 16-23% for the other two groups. Science showed a more balanced distribution, with 52% females, 45% non-English-speaking students, and 31% born outside Australia.
The remaining departments had much lower proportions of female students, at only 17% in Information Technology and 15% in Engineering. However, these two fields had some of the highest percentages of both non-English speakers (49% and 42%) and students born overseas (56% and 48%). Physics was relatively balanced, with 56% females, 38% non-English speakers, and 56% overseas-born students.