My example uses column B as the column that shows gender.

Enter this in the cell that you want to display the result.

=COUNTIF(B:B,"MALE")

Change Male to Female in the other cell you want to display the result. 

Change B:B to whatever column your gender data is in. 

=COUNTA(B:B) will count all entries in that column ignoring empty cells.

If you don't want to display the whole column you can choose. What row to start and stop at.

=COUNTA(B2:B7)

I'd like to know what percentage of females chose one option vs males, etc but I have no clue how to use a spreadsheet, the formulas I find online are not helping me as I don't know what the letters and numbers relate to or how to create a pie/bar chart.

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