The table highlights popular holiday activities in 2003 amongst 108 female and 97 male senior high school students in Britain. It reveals some Significant differences and similarities between the two groups.
Of the statistics, ‘playing sports’ showed the greatest disparity with the number of males (31) being almost four times the number of females (8). Next, in terms of contrast were the activities of “reading” and ‘shopping. In both activities, the number of females (16 and 22) at least doubled the number of males (8 and 9). While not being as dramatically different as the previous examples, there were marked differences between females (25) and males (15) in the activity of ‘sleeping resting’. These activities represented the most significant differences.
There were, however some similarities amongst the two groups. In the areas of ‘self-education’ and ‘gardening’, both males (5 and 6) and females (6 and 4) was surprisingly similar. Not surprisingly, ‘movie watching was also a similar area of interest with slightly more females (2?) interested than males (23).