Review Article

Effect of Gender on the Knowledge of Medicinal Plants: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 4

Analysis of the medicinal plant knowledge of the two genders on the global level.

Type of meta-analysisTotalNumber per genderResults

Simple count


Vote count



Effect size calculation
SD 

: total studies analysed.
: number of studies in which women know more.
: number of studies in which men know more.
WM: number of statistically tested studies in which women know more.
MM: number of statistically tested studies in which men know more.
ND: number of statistically tested studies in which there is no difference in knowledge between the genders.