Table 2 Sex/gender reporting by review section according to gender of authors
From: Lack of sex-related analysis and reporting in Cochrane Reviews: a cross-sectional study
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 |