Take a careful look at Table 4.2. Although overall the acceptance rate was higher for men, the acceptance rate in each subject individually was higher for women. How can this apparent paradox occur? The explanation is that the women were more likely to apply for the more popular and therefore more competitive subjects with the lowest acceptance rate, such as medicine and veterinary medicine, and tended not to apply to engineering, which has a higher acceptance rate. In this case, therefore, we might conclude that there is no evidence of discrimination.
