Figure 1 illustrates male and female overseas students’ reason for concern about environmental issues.
The results indicated that female overseas students were substantially more concerned about quality of life while male overseas students were not at all concerned about this issue. In addition, considerably more females than males were concerned about health effects of pollutions. In contrast, males were significantly more concerned about future generations and maintaining animals and plants species than females.
According to the graph, a large proportion of female overseas students were concerned about the health effects of pollution (36%), while a large proportion of male overseas students were concerned about this issue as well (28%). Moreover, twice as many males (24%) as females (12%) chose that they were concerned about future generations. Furthermore, males were substantially more concerned about maintaining animals and plants species (24%) while females were not at all concerned about this issue. However, significant numbers of females were concerned about quality of life (28%) while males were not at all concerned about this problem. In addition, slightly more males (12%) were concerned about availability of resources than females (8%). While slightly more females(4%) than males(0%) were concerned about other issues for example, rising sea levels. Finally, in terms of long-term economic sustainability and not concerned at all about environmental problems, the proportion of males and females were equal, at 8% and 4% respectively.