Supporting Information. Characteristics of Participants by Gender, Academic/Scientific

Supporting information. Characteristics of participants by gender, academic/scientific position, branch of biology in which they work, years spent in research, sort of organisms on which they conduct research.

Gender Number of responses Branch of biology Number of responses Male 101 Bioinformatics 10 Female 50 Botany & Virology 9 Total 151 Cell biology 14 Academic/scientific position Conservation biology 4 Full professor 50 Ecology 40 Associate professor 28 Epigenetics 3 Assistant professor 20 Marine biology 5 Postdoctoral fellow 9 Microbiology 22 Senior research 3 Molecular biology 20 fellow Junior research 0 Mycology 1 fellow Senior lecturer 3 Neurobiology 8 Junior lecturer 3 Physiology 7 PhD student 28 Zoology 19 Other: 7 Other: 31 Total 151 Total 193 Years in research Sort of organisms 0-5 30 Archea 5 6-10 25 Bacteria 22 11-15 14 Protista 14 16-20 20 Animalia 114 21+ 62 Plantae 29 Total 151 Fungi 8 Viruses 1 Total 193