Table 2.

Included Articles with the Number and Percentage of Women, Men, and Unknown Gender Experts

Newspaper	Total articles included	Total experts	Total women experts	Proportion of total experts who were women % (95% CI)	Total men experts	Proportion of total experts who were men % (95% CI)	Total unknown	Unique* experts	Unique* women experts	Proportion of unique experts who were women % (95% CI)	Unique* men experts	Proportion of unique experts who were men % (95% CI)	Unique unknown experts
Boston Globe	426	329	119	36.2 (31.0–41.4)	210	63.8 (58.6–69.0)	0	223	85	38.1 (31.7–44.5)	138	61.9 (55.5–68.3)	0
Chicago Tribune	460	179	81	45.3 (38.0–52.5)	98	54.7 (47.5–62.0)	0	145	60	41.4 (33.4–49.4)	85	58.6 (50.6–66.6)	0
Los Angeles Times	581	374	133	35.3 (30.7–40.4)	241	63.9 (59.6–69.3)	3 (0.8)	300	97	32.3 (27.0–37.6)	200	66.7 (61.3–72.0)	3 (1.0)
New York Post	294	73	27	37.0 (25.9–48.1)	46	63.0 (51.9–74.1)	0	63	22	34.9 (27.0–37.6)	41	65.1 (53.3–76.9)	0
New York Times	458	372	123	33.1 (28.3–37.8)	249	66.9 (62.2–71.7)	0	329	102	31.0 (26.0–36.0)	227	69.0 (64.0–74.0)	0
Star Tribune†	241	98	51	52.0 (42.1–61.9)	47	48.0 (38.1–57.9)	0	66	28	42.4 (30.5–54.3)	38	57.6 (45.7–69.5)	0
USA Today	292	175	62	35.0 (28.3–42.5)	113	63.8 (57.5–71.7)	2 (1.1)	132	52	39.4 (31.1–47.7)	78	59.1 (50.7–67.5)	2 (1.5)
Wall Street Journal	446	208	71	34.1 (27.2–40.6)	137	65.9 (59.4–72.3)	0	199	66	33.2 (26.6–39.7)	133	66.8 (60.3–73.4)	0
Washington Post	483	480	157	32.4 (28.5–36.9)	323	66.8 (63.1–71.5)	4 (0.8)	386	125	32.4 (27.7–37.10	257	66.6 (61.9–71.3)	4 (1.0)
Total	3681	2297	824	35.9 (33.9–37.8)	1,464	63.7 (61.8–65.7)	9 (0.4)	1738	601	34.6 (32.3–36.8)	1128	64.9 (62.7–67.1)	9 (0.05)

*Unique refers to exclusion of duplicate mentions of the same expert in multiple articles

^†Minneapolis-St Paul