The bar chart illustrates the proportion of men and women
teaching in six different types of educational places in the UK
in 2010. Overall, there was a large gap between the percentages of male and female teachers in pre-schools, primary schools and universities. Meanwhile, the gap was significantly smaller in other educational settings. In the year 2010, over 90% of teachers in both nursery and primary school settings were women, while the male teachers made up less than 10%. In contrast, at the educational level of university, males accounted for about 70% whereas only roughly 30% of professors were females. In the other educational settings, the percentages of men and women were very similar. While women outnumbered men by about 5% in secondary schools, the situation was reserved when considering private training institutes, where there was about 5% more male than female instructors. In the college setting, each gender accounted for half of the teacher population. In the university setting, the proportion of men was twice that for women was twice as much as that of women