Schools were somewhat less likely to send no female pupils on to study the social sciences than male pupils, but there were large differences between the three subjects. A larger proportion of schools sent no female pupils on to study economics than sent no male pupils on, but the opposite was true of psychology and sociology. Just 1.2% of schools with at least 30 female pupils sent none on to study psychology, while nearly one in ten schools with at least 30 male pupils sent none of them on.
And in sociology, the difference was even canada rcs data starker: just 3% sent no female pupils on, compared to nearly a fifth (18.9%) that sent no boys on.
Arts
And finally, the arts.[4] Here I am including art and design subjects, music, dance, and drama and theatre studies.
The vast majority of schools (97%) sent at least one pupil on to study either an art and design subject, music, dance or drama. More than half sent no pupils on to study music.
Just under a fifth of schools with at least 30 male pupils sent none of them on to study art and design, music, dance or drama at A-Level. By comparison, just 3.9% of schools with at least 30 female pupils sent none of them on to study these subjects. But the gender difference was much smaller in music than in art and design, dance and drama.