The bar chart illustrates the distribution of male and female research students across six different subjects (linguistics, psychology, natural sciences, engineering, programming, and mathematics) in 2005.
Overall, the number of male research students was greater than that of females during the given period. Natural sciences was the most popular subject for both genders, while linguistics attracted the fewest male students, and mathematics was the least favoured among females. Furthermore, linguistics was the only subject with a higher proportion of women than men.
In natural sciences, there was a perfectly balanced representation of both genders, with exactly 200 students each, marking the highest enrollment in any subject. Additionally, the number of female psychology students was slightly lower than male students, at approximately 175 compared to 200. Moreover, linguistics was dominated by women, whose numbers exceeded 100 and outnumbered those of male students. Both psychology and linguistics exhibited a marginal gender gap of roughly 25 students.
On the other hand, male enrollment in engineering and programming stood at equal figures of 150 students, significantly higher than female participation. A marked disparity is also evident in mathematics, where 200 male students pursued the subject, nearly five times the modest number of 40 female students.