Gender and Subject Choice – Section 1

Russell Haggar

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Section One:

Gender Differences in Subject Entries in GCSE and GCE Advanced Level Subjects 2018 -20

  1. [Students may find these data especially useful] 
  •    Click here [2018] for EXCEL Charts: GCSE; Gender and Subject Entry; the 10 Most Popular GCSE Subjects ; Separate Sciences and Modern Languages; Subjects with high percentages of female and male entries.
  •  Click here [2019] for EXCEL Charts GCSE : Gender and Subject Entry: the 10o Most Popular GCSE Subjects ; Separate Sciences and Modern Languages and Click Here to download   subjects with especially high percentages of female and male entries
  • Before looking at the GCE Advanced Level Charts below use this exercise  to estimate of gender differences in subject choice at GCE Advanced Level
  • Click Here [2020]  Click here [2019]  and  Click here [2018] for  EXCEL Charts showing the 10 Most Popular GCE Advanced Level Subjects in 2018 with percentages of Male and Female entrants for each subject
  • Click Here [2020]  Click here [2019] and   Click here[2018] for  EXCEL charts showing gender differences in entries for GCE Advanced Level Mathematics, Sciences and Modern Languages and for subjects with especially large percentages of female and male entrants.
Exercise

Before looking at the above and various following charts and tables try to answer the following questions

  1. .In the following list of subjects relating to 2019 there are 6 subjects which appeared in the top 10 most popular subjects for females and males, 4 subjects which appeared only in the female Top 10 and 4 subjects which appeared only in the male top 10. Can you decide which subjects appeared in which of these three categories?. Art and Design, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Economics, English Literature, Geography, History, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Further Mathematics.
  2. Once you have decided which you think are the 10 most popular Female Choices try to rank them from 1 -10 in order of female popularity.
  3. Once you have decided which you think are the 10 most popular Male Choices try to rank them in order of male popularity.
  4. Estimate/guess  what percentages of students were males and females respectively in the following subjects in 2019.  Physics? Economics?     Mathematics? Sociology? Religious Studies? Biology? Chemistry? History?
  5. Do you think that gender differences in subject choice at GCE Advanced Level have changed much in the last 2-3 years?

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