The bar chart shows the gender distribution of teachers across a range of school in the UK in 2010.
In three of six types, women outnumbered men . Women made up a particularly large proportion of teaching in nursery school, primary school and secondary school. The gender gap was particularly large in educational models such as nursery school, primary school, where female teachers have a significant presence and leave male teachers only small parts (5% in nursery school and nearly 10% in primary school).
Men and women teachers are more equally represented in higher educational setting, especially in secondary school, college and private training institue. In college, there are exactly the same number of teachers in both gender (50%). Besides, secondary school and private training institue have a relatively equal percentage of male and female. Women teaching in secondary school by nearly 60% is a bit more than men teachers whereas the opposite situation happens in private training institue with 60% of men versus women. University is one of the types that men teachers account for 70% which only 30% women.
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