The given chart illustrates the number of male and female students across six academic disciplines in a university in 2012, while the line shows the total enrolments in each field.
Overall, while the number of male students in engineering, science, and mathematics outnumbered their female counterparts, the opposite pattern could be observed in the remaining subjects, with the exception of agriculture, which recorded an equal number between the two genders. It is also salient to note that social sciences were by far the most popular subjects.
Looking first at the disciplines with higher female participation, Social Sciences had the largest enrollment overall at roughly 7,000 students, with women (about 4,000) slightly outnumbering men (just under 3,000). Not only did this subject have the highest total, but it also exhibited a smaller gender gap compared with most other fields. Humanities followed, attracting about 1,700 females and 900 males, totalling around 2,300. Although Health recorded a smaller total of approximately 2,200 students, the gender imbalance was the most pronounced in favour of women, with female enrolments (1,800) more than double those of males (800).
Regarding the subjects dominated by men, Engineering stood out with the largest gap, as male students (around 2,200) more than doubled female figures (1,000), making it the second most popular discipline at about 3,200 students. Science and Math showed a similar but less dramatic difference, with men (approximately 1,300) almost twice as numerous as women (800), for a total of around 2,000. Agriculture, by contrast, had by far the smallest cohort overall, fewer than 700 students, and was the only subject to record identical numbers of males and females.