Fig 3.

Fig 3a. The number of male and female first authors who were or were not the corresponding author. N: female first authors that were corresponding authors = 839, male first authors that were corresponding authors = 1,265, female first authors that were not corresponding authors = 275, and male first authors that were not corresponding authors = 258. The total number of manuscripts does not total 3,348 (the number unique manuscripts assigned a handling editor by the JEB) due to authors with unassigned genders. Fig 3b. The number of male and female first authors who were not the corresponding author and the gender of the corresponding author. N: female first authors displaced by female last author = 77, female first authors displaced by male last author = 157, male first authors displaced by female last author = 49, male first authors displaced by male last author = 163). The total number of manuscripts does not total 3,348 (the number unique manuscripts assigned a handling editor by the JEB) due to authors with unassigned genders.