The bar chart backed up by the line graph provides the numbers of participating male and female athletes in the Olympics at five different time cross sections of the history.
At first glance, it is hard to miss the increasing number of women participants at the biggest sport event in the world. According to the bar chart, there were immeasurably small bunch of female athletes participating in Olympics in 1924 in contrast to 3,000 men.
In 1952, approximately 500 women took part in various competitions of the Olympics, but the gender gap was still huge; circa 4,500 male participants were competing in various sports games that year. the 1984 demonstrate a tendency of growing women involvement in the Olympics. More than 1,500 women and more than 5,000 men competed that year, which made the ratio close to 1:4.
Finally, in 2012 the Olympics hosted almost 6,000 male and close to 5,000 female athletes from around the globe. Throughout the century long timeframe, the number of male participants has almost doubled, while women, virtually absent at first, almost reached the men in terms of quantity.