The bar chart below presents how many male and female undergraduates enrolling in six computer science-related subjects at a US university in 2011.
Overall, Nature Science was the most chosen of all subjects among both genders, while the opposite was true for males studying linguistics and females studying Mathematics. In addition, the highest disparity was seen in the number of males and females studying Mathematics.
As for male-dominated subjects, the number of male Mathematics students stood at 200 students, almost as seven times as that of female students. Similarly, the figure for male Psychology students was 200 individuals, around 25 higher than that of their female counterparts and the gender gap of Psychology was smaller than that of Mathematics. Engineering and Programming attracted similar numbers of undergraduates of both genders, at 150 male students as opposed to 75 female students.
In contrast, Linguistics witnessed an opposite tendency. The number of females stood at 120 students, two times as many as that of males. Besides, the quantity of male and female students majoring in Natural Sciences was the same at 200 students .