The presented bar chart delineates the distribution of research students across various academic disciplines in the year 2005.
Overall, the natural sciences saw an equal number of male and female students, whereas a significant disparity between genders was observed in the field of mathematics.
The field of natural sciences attracted the largest student population, with a total of 200 research students evenly distributed between male and female counterparts. Following closely behind, psychology enrolled approximately 200 students, predominantly male. In the field of linguistics, the student count reached around 180, with a higher representation of female students compared to males.
Conversely, disciplines such as engineering and programming witnessed a similar enrollment of approximately 200 students each. Both fields exhibited a balanced gender distribution, with marginal differences in the number of female students. Notably, mathematics displayed the most significant gender gap, with only 40 female students compared to 140 male students, representing a stark difference of 100 students.