Fig. 2

Demography of survey participants. a. Grouping of responses to the question whether the quality of the mentoring changed. Respondents in group 1 experienced improved or unchanged mentorship, while respondents in group 2 experienced worsened mentorship during the pandemic. The total number of participants, and numbers of respondents for each group are shown. b-d. Analysis of participants’ gender distribution (b), caretaking responsibilities (e.g. childcare, eldercare, etc.) (c) and educational stage (d) revealed no statistical differences between groups 1 and 2. The number of total participants for each question, the number of responses and distributions (in %) in each group, as well as p-values determined by comparison between groups 1 vs. 2 using Fisher’s exact test are shown