The table below illustrates UK participation in selected sports by gender between 2005/06 and 2008/09. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. write at least 150 words.

The bar chart shows the percentage of New Zealand's citizens playing several types of exercises in 2002. The participation rates were divided based on gender which was female and male.

Overall

, it can be seen that boys dominated the total number of sportspeople in

this

nation.

However

, in the several kinds of sports, girls took part considerably. Soccer attracted around 25% of males,

while

the percentage of women was just about 5% in 2002. Some exercises

such

as cricket, martial, arts basketball and tennis

therefore

gained more males.

In addition

, other types shown

also

figured out more attraction on boys.

On the other hand

, netball and athletics had opposite trends. The netball sport accounted for roughly 25% of females as players,

by contrast

, the proportion of males in

this

sport was only around 1%. A similar pattern happened in athletics where approximately 5% of women had done

whereas

the male proportion was only influenced slightly below 5%.