The Relationship Between Gender and Areas of Academic Interest

Overview

I designed this study to determine if there was a connection between gender and areas of academic interest for high school and college students. For a long time, there have been gender disparities in different academic areas, and I wanted to delve into that idea within my community. My hypothesis was that there would be a relationship between gender and area of academic interest, so to examine this potential correlation, I sent out a survey to high school students asking them their gender and area of most academic interest. I also got data about the gender breakdowns of different majors for a local university. I was able to analyze this data to look for any significant connections. By conducting a chi-square test, I determined that there was a correlation between gender and area of academic interest for high school and college students. Confidence intervals showed that college males tended to prefer things like math, engineering, and trade, while college females tended to prefer things like English, social studies, and the arts. They also suggested that high school males tended to prefer math, engineering, and computer science, and high school females tended to prefer science, medicine, and environmental studies, although both of those conclusions did not have a big enough sample size for statistically significant results. A clear correlation is shown between gender and areas of academic interest, and further studies might look into why this is the case.

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