Fig 1. The percentage of men and women as a) first, b) last and, c) corresponding authors, and broken down by continent of affiliation.

This is based on the 3,348 manuscripts (N: Africa = 46, America = 1051, Asia = 385, Europe = 1664, Oceania = 202) submitted to the JEB between 2012–2016, and the percentages of authors with unassigned gender are also shown.