The table illustrates details on students that enrolled in six departments at an Australian university in 2011.
Overall, there was a significant difference between the proportion of female students studying math and chemistry and the proportion of female students studying other subjects. The proportions of foreign students and students born outside Australia also drastically differentiated between subjects.
With 72% of all students in 2011, the English department had the largest percentage of female learners of any subject, whereas the history department only had 52% of those enrolled who are female. On the other hand, only 12% of English students did not speak English as the language they were born with, but 45% of history students did not learn English as their first language. There was also a clear discrepancy in the proportion of students who were born outside of Australia: 31% of history students and 20% of English students were foreign-born.
About 56% of physics scholars were female, which was the greatest percentage of any of the three subjects, according to data from participants in the math, chemistry, and physics departments. In contrast, only 15% of pupils studying chemistry were female. While just 48% of chemistry students were from outside of Australia, math and physics both had an equal percentage of international students – 56 percent of both were exchange students. On the other hand, more than fifty percent of math students spoke a language other than English as their first language, and 38% of physics students did not speak English as their native tongue.