The charts illustrate the proportion of boys and girls in a certain group age, who participated in cultural activities and sports in Australia in 2003.
Overall, there were more girls attending in most of the activities, and boys were dominant in sports.
According to the charts, dancing activity had the most active learners among four sections, with girls had a higher proportion (25%), when compared to boys (>5%). Next is the drama class, where males (>5%) had a lower rate than females (5%). Furthermore the similar proportion can be seen in singing activities, in which female proportion was higher (5%) than male (>5%). Surprisingly, in all of the cultural activities, only boys, who were playing musical instruments, had a higher percentage (15%) than girls (10%).
Beside the dominance of male in playing musical instruments, boys were more interested in sports than girls. Male showed dominance in the field with 70% of boys in the group aged 5 to 14 years old. On the other hand, more than 50% of the girls were playing sports in 2003.