The chart below shows the numbers of male and female research students studying six science-related subjects at a UK university in 2009. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart shows the gender distribution of

students

doing scientific research across a range of disciplines at a UK university in 2009. In five of the six disciplines, males outnumbered females. Male

students

made up a particularly large proportion of the student group who study the subjects related to inanimate objects and materials: physics, astronomy, and geology. The gender gap was particularly large in the field of physics, where there were five times as many male

students

as female

students

.

Men

and

women

were more equally represented in subjects related to the study of living things: biology,

medicine

, and veterinary

medicine

. In biology, there were nearly as many

women

(approximately 200) as

men

(approximately 240).

This

was

also

true of

medicine

. Veterinary

medicine

was the only discipline in which

women

outnumbered

men

(roughly 110

women

vs. 90

men

).

Overall

, the chart shows that at

this

university, science-related subjects continue to be male-dominated;

however

,

women

have a significant presence in fields related to

medicine

and the life sciences.