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. 2022 Nov 8;57(3):280–289. doi: 10.1111/medu.14959

TABLE 1.

Predicted author gender for articles published in 22 medical education journals published between 2000 and 2020

Male (%) Female (%)
All author positions 62 828 (55.7) 49 975 (44.3)
Single author 3932 (67.1) 1925 (32.9)
First author (team) 13 632 (51.7) 12 739 (48.3)
Last author (team) 15 807 (60.4) 10 376 (39.6)
Not first or last author (team) 33 389 (42.2) 26 860 (34.0)

Note: We were unable to predict the gender of 3964 authors (Genderize.io returned: ‘unknown’ [n = 1325], male under 0.70 probability (n = 1406), female under 0.70 probability [n = 1233]).