The bar chart compares the number of male and female undergraduates selecting six different subjects as their major in a US college in the year 2010.
Overall, finance was the most chosen area of qualifications among both sexes, whereas the opposite was true for engineering. In addition, the most significant difference was in the number of males and females enrolling in mathematics.
In detail, at approximately 230 students, the number of female finance students was as high as male enrollment. As opposed to this, accounting and marketing attracted more females. The numbers of females pursuing the former subject were 200, 30 students higher than their male counterparts.Likewise, enrollment for the latter stood at about 120 females, in comparison with only 80 male students.
As for the remaining subjects, male mathematics students stood at 200, more than triple that of females. Similarly, the figure for male economics students was 150, almost twice as many as female economics students. The numbers of males and females who studied engineering were relatively smaller, with around 55 and 52 students, respectively.