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. 2021 Jan 29;16(1):e0245533. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245533

Table 5. Top 100 male/female sources, by category, in each of the 24 months between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2020.

Identified as men Identified as women
Category Quotes Unique persons Quotes Unique persons
Politician 103,378 73.8% 295 40.4% 29,007 52.6% 270 24.7%
Sports 10,723 7.7% 113 15.5% 1,415 2.6% 60 5.5%
Unelected government official 9,175 6.5% 75 10.3% 4,583 8.3% 153 14.0%
Health profession 5,327 3.8% 21 2.9% 9,217 16.7% 58 5.3%
Leader (union, education, activist) 2,297 1.6% 36 4.9% 1,578 2.9% 65 6.0%
Police 1,763 1.3% 33 4.5% 1,471 2.7% 57 5.2%
Private business 1,739 1.2% 40 5.5% 1,553 2.8% 57 5.2%
Legal profession 1,319 0.9% 33 4.5% 1,171 2.1% 69 6.3%
Creative industries 1,278 0.9% 19 2.6% 1,011 1.8% 49 4.5%
Perpetrator 948 0.7% 18 2.5% 264 0.5% 17 1.6%
Academic/researcher 685 0.5% 15 2.1% 835 1.5% 45 4.1%
Victim/witness 634 0.5% 10 1.4% 1,424 2.6% 94 8.6%
Media 530 0.4% 11 1.5% 391 0.7% 21 1.9%
Non-governmental organization 245 0.2% 7 1.0% 959 1.7% 53 4.9%
Error 91 0.1% 4 0.5% 8 0.0% 1 0.1%
Person on the street interviews 24 0.0% 1 0.1% 262 0.5% 22 2.0%
Total 140,156 731 55,149 1,091