Conflicts of Interest at Medical Schools

February 15, 2008, 09:40 AM ET

Advanced Placement by Gender

For those who haven’t seen the article on Advanced Placement course-taking in The Chronicle, here is a breakdown of subjects by gender.

In the following subjects, the percentage of females exceeded that of males, sometimes vastly.

Art History: 67 percent female

Biology: 58 percent

Chinese: 55 percent

English language and comp: 63 percent

English literature: 64 percent

Environmental science: 56 percent

European history: 54 percent

French language: 70 percent

French literature: 71 percent

Human geography: 55 percent

Italian: 65 percent

Japanese: 54 percent

Psychology: 65 percent

Spanish language: 64 percent

Spanish literature: 67 percent

Studio art: 70 percent

U.S. history: 55 percent

World history: 55 percent

And here are the subjects in which females lagged:

Calculus BC: 41 percent female

Chemistry: 47 percent

Computer science: 17 percent

Macroeconomics: 45 percent

Microeconomics: 43 percent

Music theory: 43 percent

Physics B: 35 percent

Physics C (electricity): 22 percent

Physics C (mechanics): 27 percent

And in these subjects, the gender breakdown was about even:

Calculus AB

German

Government and politics

U.S. Government and politics

Latin

Statistics