The bar chart illustrates the proportions of boys and girls aged 5-14 who participated in cultural activities and sports in Australia in 2003.
Overall, girls were more actively involved in cultural activities such as dancing, drama and singing, whereas boys predominated in sports and playing musical instruments. Sports recorded by far the highest participation rates for both genders, while drama and singing attracted the smallest shares.
In detail, dancing demonstrates the most striking gender disparity. A quarter of girls engaged in this activity, compared with only around 3% of boys, meaning that girls outnumbered boys by roughly a factor of seven. Drama participation stood at 5% for girls and 4% for boys, while singing followed the same pattern with nearly identical figures of 5% and 4%.
By contrast, boys clearly dominated in sports and in playing musical instruments. Sports accounted for the largest proportion overall, involving about 70% of boys and 55% of girls. Similarly, the percentage of boys playing musical instruments exceeded that of girls by 5 percentage points, with figures of 15% and 10% respectively.