The bar chart illustrates the number of students who research in several fields ranging from humanistic subjects, such as linguistics and psychology, to scientific-related topics, such as engineering and mathematics. In addition, it displays a comparison of the popularity of certain subjects between males and females.
Overall, psychology and natural sciences are by far the most popular fields of research, counting around 350 and 400 individuals, whereas linguistics and mathematics barely reach half of the numbers. In addition, the percentage of males is in general higher than females in scientific fields of research, especially in programming and engineering-related activities where the share of men almost doubles the number of women: 150 males in programming and engineering versus 75 and 80 women respectively. In addition, a remarkable evidence of this disproportion is represented by mathematics, where the quotient male-female almost reaches a 4:1 ratio. An anomalous example is instead represented by natural sciences, where males and females show the same percentages.
As far as the humanistic subjects are concerned, a more balanced combination of the two genders is provided: psychology has slightly more male participants but linguistics counterbalances this trend.