The given bar chart demonostrates the proportion of students of both genders obtaining highest marks between 1960 and 2000.
Overall, it is clear that males have the highest percentage of top students, specifically in Humanities, Science and Maths over the period given. Females, on the other hand, have their least number in those field; however, they do show great results in Arts and Languages.
At the start of the period, Scince fields had approximately 35% of male top students, whereas female learners held only about 10% of students with highest grade at the same time. Similarly, students with excellent attending in Maths was the highest in men, which had around 30% of these and excessing women by 25%, respectively. Humanities, however, possessed only 21% of male students, while female had about 32% of top students in the same field. Arts had significantly lower percentage of top students at that time, with 9% of males and 21% of females.
By contrast, male students in Science