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 Use synonyms
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 Use synonyms
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were more equally represented in subjects related to the study of living things: biology, Use synonyms
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medicine
. In biology, there were nearly as many Use synonyms
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(approximately 200) as Use synonyms
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medicine
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, the chart shows that at Linking Words
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university, science-related subjects continue to be male-dominated; Linking Words
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