The bar chart illustrates the number of students who at a first-year university chose six different subjects: sciences, maths, medicine, law, languages and arts in 1980.
Overall, females were higher than males in languages, art and law while the opposite was true for maths, medicine and science. Notably, males dominated in science while females excelled in arts and languages.
In 1980, there were 5 thousand females enrolled in Arts, which was 2.5 higher than 2 thousand males. Turning to languages and medicine, approximately 4.4 and 4.2 thousand boys compared with 1.7 and 2.8 thousand girls, respectively.
Moving to the remaining categories, sciences had about 4.8 thousand males and 2.1 thousand females. In 1980, there were 3.2 thousand boys and 2.8 thousand girls who studied maths while the opposite was true for law, with just about 1.8 thousand boys and 1.9 thousand girls.
