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. 2022 Dec 26;11:281. doi: 10.1186/s13643-021-01867-3

Table 2.

Sex/gender reporting by review section according to gender of authors

Sex/gender reporting in each review section First author (female) Last author (female) Both authors femalea At least one author female
% (N) P value % (N) P value % (N) P value % (N) P value
Abstract (N=56) 68% (38) 0.019 44.6% (25) 0.701 39.3% (22) 0.015 73.2% (41) 0.531
Methods (N=90) 55.6% (50) 0.623 50.0% (45) 0.105 28.8% (26) 0.465 76.7% (69) 0.114
Descriptive results (N=380) 56.1% (213) 0.147 45.0% (171) 0.027 28.1% (107) 0.127 72.9% (277) 0.012
Analytic results (N=142) 51.4% (73) 0.465 45.8% (65) 0.405 30.3% (43) 0.316 66.9% (95) 0.386
Discussion (N=76) 60.5% (46) 0.195 50.0% (38) 0.161 35.5% (27) 0.046 75.0% (57) 0.315
At least two sections (N=208) 56.7% (118) 0.175 45.2% (94) 0.266 29.3% (61) 0.130 72.6% (151) 0.221
At least three sections (N=84) 60.7% (51) 0.126 51.2%(43) 0.070 36.9% (31) 0.011 75.0% (63) 0.238
All sections (N=14) 57.1% (8) 0.759 57.1% (8) 0.253 35.7% (5) 0.389 78.6% (11) 0.459

aBoth authors are women compared to at least one being a man