The graphs show the difference between proportion of male and female participants and their preferences about science subjects – biology, physics and computer science ¬¬ – in a particular university in the years 1992 and 2012.
Overall, university accepted more male participants’ application and most students chose biology to study in both years. A comparison between percentages of students’ number also reveals that females were increased considerably, with nearly reaching the rate of other gender students at the end of the survey. Although participants for physics were roughly at the same level during a decade, computer science was preferred by significantly more students in less year, despite decreased interest in biology.
In 1992, percentage of males’ number were at the peak with about 65% which then suddenly dropped by 15% to 50%. At the same time, the proportion of women in 2012 for university increased to approximately 45% from well over 30%.
Meanwhile, the willing to study biology and physics decreased, while participants in computer science witnessed a noticeable growth at about 25% in 2012, which was nearly 0% ten years later. The students’ proportions for physics maintained the stability with approximately 20%, that was tripled to about 60% in the first year and doubled to 40% in the last year by biology.