The given bar graphs compare how the proportion of grades is changed between two groups of pupils across five subjects, including Science, Arts, Maths, Languages, and Humanities, over 40 years, starting in 1960.
Overall, it can be seen that male students do well in subjects like science and maths, whereas females are better at arts and languages over the period shown.
In 1960, females performed exceptionally well in languages, which is approximately two times better than males. Their performance (32%) was also better in humanities as compared to the boys (22%). However, they performed poorly in other subjects like maths and science. For instance, boys perform around 6 times better than males in the case of maths, which were 5% and 30% for females and males, respectively. The Same trend was observed in science, where males outperformed females by delivering a higher score of 35%.
In 2000, males improved their performance in humanities by just under a half, while females scored around 25%. As before, the average performance of male students (around 20%) was marginally higher than that of females (5%), particularly in maths. In contrast, females did better in the arts section, with a score of just under thirty for females and just above twenty for males. And in the case of language performance, once again, females did better than males.