The graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members across the faculties of a major university in 2012

The graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members across the faculties of a major university in 2012.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares the proportion of qualified staff members by genders working in the departments of a well-known university in 2012. Overall, it is noticeable that the engineering faculty consists of the highest number of men and the lowest that of women; while there was a balance between both genders in the medical department.

The year 2012 witnessed a greater occupation of female members in arts, education and medicine. While there was slight difference in the proportions of both men and women working in the medical department with over 40 percent, the educational department suffered from an overwhelming discrepancy with approximately under 80 per cent for women and just over 20 percent for men. Based in the statistics in the arts faculty, female and male members accounted for under 60 percent and above 40 percent, respectively.

In contrast, there was a significant difference between the proportions of male and female members in engineering with the figures over 80 percent and under 20 percent, respectively. There was a similar trend in both genders across science and business. Particularly, for both these departments, the men employees occupied over 60 percent compared with under 40 per cent for women. In the law faculty, while men workers contributed only 60 per cent, the proportion of women was 20 percent lower than that of men.