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. 2022 Winter;21(4):ar69. doi: 10.1187/cbe.21-12-0343

TABLE 1.

Demographics of study participantsa

Genderb N
Female and/or Feminine and/or Woman; Questioning and/or figuring it out 1
Genderqueer and/or nonbinary; Transgender 1
Genderqueer and/or nonbinary 1
Questioning and/or figuring it out 1
Female and/or Feminine and/or Woman; Genderfluid; Genderqueer and/or nonbinary; Transgender 1
Race/ethnicityc
Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish 3
Asian; White 1
Asian 1
Orientationb
Bisexual 2
Gay; Lesbian; Queer 1
Lesbian; Queer 1
Gay; Queer 1
Major/focus
Biological sciences 1
Biomedical engineering 1
Health services administration (pre-med track) 1
Philosophy (started as a biological sciences major) 1
Women and gender studies with a biological sciences minor 1

aA semicolon between words indicates that the participant chose multiple options in the category.

bTo gather data about gender and orientation we used the survey items developed by Casper et al. (2022).

cTo gather data about race/ethnicity we used survey items recommend by recent Census Bureau research (Cohn, 2022), and added the options “prefer to self-identify” and “prefer not to respond.”