The line graph illustrates the gender distribution of students pursuing scientific studies, namely, Physics, Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine, at an academic institution in the UK in 2009.
Overall, it is apparent that science-related fields were significantly dominated by male learners. However, women had a notable presence in the disciplines of life sciences and medicine, especially related to animals.
To begin with, for the first three majors linking to physical sciences , male learners obviously outnumbered female. Astronomy and Geology were doubled in male enlistments, while Physics was registered nearly about 220 students, which meant that it was five times larger than in female registrants.
Conversely, the last threes subjects associated to the study of living organisms,were more equally represented in both genders. In biology, there were nearly as many women (approximately 200) as men (approximately 240). This was also true of medicine. Interestingly, veterinary medicine was the only field that female learners formed the majority presence. There were roughly 120 female students as opposed to around 90 male students in this field, meaning that females were highly interested in animals studies.