Schiebinger's list of references-2
2022-02-02
R Sapir-Pichhadze, S Oertelt-Prigione - Kidney International, 2023
Precision medicine emerged as a promising approach to identify suitable
interventions for individual patients with a particular health concern and at various
time points. Technology can enable the acquisition of increasing volumes of clinical …
A Laxdal - Scientometrics, 2023
Females are underrepresented in sports and exercise medicine research, both as
authors and as research participants. The aim of this study was therefore to explore
who does sports and exercise medicine research on females. All original research …
News: In Taiwan, Gendered Innovations has been listed as one of the six Important Issues of Gender Equality in the Yuan (unicameral legislature of the Republic of China) for 2022-2025. The development of GI operating manuals (to be based on the GI website) has been listed as the performance indicators of ten ministries and commissions in 2024.
New Case Studies on the Gendered Innovations website:
New Case Study: Sustainable Fashion Links to an external site.. The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally impactful industrial sectors in the world. We develop Intersectional Life Cycle Assessment to connect fast fashion supply chains to food supply chains. Intersectional feedback loops joining E-LCA and S-LCA, illustrated through the example of fast fashion (fig. left). Intersectional Life Cycle Assessment (I-LCA) analyses how environmental and social life cycles intersect for a more global understanding of product impacts—on both the physical environment and human society.
New Case Study: Domestic Robots Links to an external site.. The robots are coming to clean up your kitchen! How can robots engender trust and meet functional needs of diverse users across cultures and type of household? Robot designers can incorporate intersectional analysis Links to an external site. in the design process and work collaboratively with potential household end-users—from the first to the final steps of the process.
New Case Study: Medical Technology Links to an external site.. Medical technology harms twice as many females as males. “FemTech” is one solution!—and expanding to include non-binary people.
New Case Study: Computer Science Curricula Links to an external site.: Intersectional Approaches. Since 2017, universities have been developing “Embedded EthiCS” that integrate intersectional sociocultural analysis into core CS courses. This case study highlights some emerging program.
New Case Study: Nanomedicine—studying how the menstrual cycle changes the effectiveness of nanoparticles in female-specific cancer treatments.
New Case Study: Gender-Related Variables for Health Research Links to an external site.. Developing and Validating the Stanford Gender-related Variables for Health Research (GVHR) tool: The Stanford GVHR tool measures 7 gender-related variables (caregiver strain, work strain, independence, risk-taking, emotional intelligence, social support, and discrimination) in 3 different categories (gender norms, gender-related traits, and gender relations). The survey was developed and cross-validated in three diverse, U.S. populations. Our questionnaire is freely available on the GI website.
2022-01-28
- Stockholm and Lund Universities are organizing an academic course in "Physics and Gender.” You can find information about it here: https://canvas.education.lu.se/courses/20692
2. The GenderEx Horizon 2020 project "GenderEX" is organising a conference for young researchers on "Gender for Excellence in Research" the 10-11 of June in Istanbul. More information can be found here: http://genderex.eu/genderex-conference-2023/ Links to an external site.
- I find it hard to believe that this is still true, but it’s documented in this article: Women get half the lab space of men Links to an external site.
Female scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have, on average, half as much research space and one-third the storage space of men Links to an external site., according to a report released by the institute last week. The discrepancy is not explained by factors such as funding, seniority or group size. The data echo similar findings stretching back to a groundbreaking 1999 report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by biologist Nancy Hopkins, who measured every lab in the biology building under the cover of darkness. “I looked at this thing and I thought, ‘Oh my God, 30 years; I was doing this 30 years ago’,” she says. “It has been written about and talked about and it’s still happening.”
Science | 6 min read Links to an external site.
S Badaloni Links to an external site., A Rodà - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Bias, Ethical …, 2022 - ceur-ws.org
Among the various types of biases that can be recognised in the behaviour of algorithms
learning from data, gender-related biases assume particular importance in certain contexts,
such as the Italian one, traditionally linked to a patriarchal vision of society. This becomes
even more true considering the context of university education, where there is a strong
under-representation of female students in STEM Faculties, and, particularly, in Computer
Science Courses. After a brief review of gender biases reported in Machine Learning-based …
- The Institute for Gendered Innovation Links to an external site. at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, has been honored by the Japanese Ministry of Education.
B Lane, A Perez-Brumer Links to an external site., R Parker Links to an external site.… - Culture, Health & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… trans and non-binary people face when managing their menstruation as well as practical
solutions to make social and physical environments more inclusive … city planning can improve
2022-01-20
JW Lockhart Links to an external site. - 2022 - osf.io
Gender and sex are crucial aspects of machine learning (ML). This statement may sound
strange to people coming from machine learning, where the emphasis is on methodology
rather than any particular substantive domain. After all, ML is taught with bland, genderless
canonical examples like handwritten digit reading, email spam/ham detection, and iris flower
differentiation. But the idea that gender is important everywhere is not so strange to
sociologists, who have long known that gender is a so-called “master category” inflecting …
M Aly, E Colunga, M Crockett, M Goldrick, P Gomez… - 2022
Peer review is a core component of scientific progression. Although peer review
ideally improves research and promotes rigor, it also has consequences for what
types of research are published and cited, and who wants to (and is able to) …
L Al-Hassany Links to an external site., P Verdonk Links to an external site., AM VanDenBrink - The Lancet Neurology, 2023 - thelancet.com
…33 databases, the data in
which were not necessarily collected in a gender-sensitive manner. Indeed, population-
based cohorts aim to be generalisable and therefore often reflect societal patterns, which
are subject to inequality. A second problem arises from the misconception that sex should
be used to predict gender and that gender should be used to predict biological sex; some
researchers hypothesise that such assumptions are justified due to the strong …
- Beginning Jan 24, recordings of the US National Institutes of Health Gender and Health: Impacts of Structural Sexism, Gender Norms,
Relational Power Dynamics, and Gender Inequities Scientific Workshop can be accessed on the ORWH website Links to an external site..
CL Rytz, LB Beach Links to an external site., N Saad… - American Journal …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally.
Transgender and non-binary (TNB) individuals face unclear but potentially significant
cardiovascular health inequities, yet no TNB-specific evidence-based interventions for
cardiovascular risk reduction currently exist. To address this gap, we propose a road map to
improve the inclusion of TNB individuals in the planning, completion and mobilization of
cardiovascular research. In doing so, the adoption of inclusive practices would optimize the …
M Ah-King – 2023 [book]
2022-11-12
- Funding opportunity: The Intersection of Sex and Gender Influences on Health and Disease (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Links to an external site.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Due Jan 19.
- US, National Institute of Health, Drs. Elizabeth Barr and Sarah Temkin discuss gender as a social and cultural variable and health: https://orwh.od.nih.gov/about/director/messages/gender-as-social-and-cultural-variable-and-health Links to an external site.
- From Rutgers University Press: Free eBook Downloads of Abortion and Reproductive Rights-Related Titles
Considering the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade—the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion nationwide—Rutgers University Press is making a collection of eBooks about abortion and reproductive rights free to download until the end of January 2023. Readers may download any of the books listed below or go to our handy special landing page Links to an external site. for more information on each book and to download them for free by entering the code “RCCC” at checkout. Libraries may access these books for free through ProQuest, EBSCO, and other institutional library suppliers.
- GENDER-NET Plus Workshop – Integrating Gender Analysis Into Research – Paris – November 16 & 17. The agenda of the workshop and the link to register can be found here : https://gender-net-plus.eu/gender-net-plus-workshop-integrating-gender-analysis-into-research-paris-november-16-17/ Links to an external site.
- Webinar: “Visualizing the Complexity of Sex Determination,” with Amanda Montañez November 16, @ 15:00 - 16:00 CEST. Free register here: https://cesnet.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6lcofwfYRGmDFhOh0LDgoA Links to an external site.
Montañez described the session: At Scientific American, we communicate the latest and most important information about science, health, technology, the environment, and society to the public. We often use information graphics to help illuminate complex ideas that are hard to explain fully through words alone. A few years ago, as part of a special issue on sex and gender, I led the development of a graphic on the spectrum of biological sex, a fascinating topic that I had not seen visualized before and turned out to be even more complex than I had imagined. In this talk I will explain the process of how the graphic was developed, what I learned, and how this project fits into my work as a graphics editor at Scientific American.
- 'Who Is a Woman: Sex, Gender and Policy Making Links to an external site.’ by Daphna Joel and Cordelia Fine.
Abstract: Heated debates are taking place over the question: Who is a woman? Many of these are over inclusion criteria for policies that seek to promote equality, safety and/or privacy for girls and women by excluding boys and men. Science cannot resolve these debates, but its concepts and data can offer useful insights and information for policy makers who have to make principled and workable policy decisions about inclusion criteria. To assist policy makers in this difficult task, we begin by reviewing three key concepts that are often misunderstood and conflated: sex, gender, and gender identity. We then review key issues that policy makers should consider: the purpose(s) of the specific policy and whether it relates to sex, gender, and/or gender identity, and the distributions of benefits and costs for all stakeholders. As these considerations sometimes point to a conflict of interests, we end with some suggestions for how such conflicts might be ameliorated. Although we do not offer solutions to these difficult policy decisions, we hope that this article will help reduce misunderstandings, and facilitate open discussion and good decision making in this contentious policy context.
- This is about women, not gender analysis, but thought it might be of interest.
Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth
N Roulin, ER Lukacik, JS Bourdage, L Clow, H Bakour… - Journal of Organizational Behavior
Asynchronous video interviews (AVIs) have become popular tools for applicant
selection. Although AVIs are standardized, extant research remains silent on
whether this novel interview format could introduce new forms of bias. Because …
I Tarjem - Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2022
Gender matters in agriculture, and crop breeding teams are increasingly being
asked to develop plant varieties that respond to the needs and preferences of men
and women. Achieving gender-responsive crop breeding requires communication …
JW Lockhart - 2022
Gender and sex are crucial aspects of machine learning (ML). This statement may
sound strange to people coming from machine learning, where the emphasis is on
methodology rather than any particular substantive domain. After all, ML is taught …
JM Rauch, L Eliot - NeuroImage, 2022
Despite decades of pursuit, human brain imaging has yet to uncover clear neural
correlates of male-female behavioral difference. Given that such behavior does not
always align with sex categories, we argue that neuroimaging research may find …
CR Sugimoto, V Larivière - Equity for Women in Science
Equity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global
gender gap in science. Analyzing millions of scientific papers, the authors show that
women are undervalued for their labor in science as measured through publications
V Regitz-Zagrosek, C Gebhard - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2022
Despite a growing body of evidence, the distinct contributions of biological sex and
the sociocultural dimension of gender to the manifestations and outcomes of
ischaemic heart disease and heart failure remain unknown. The intertwining of sex-based …
L Foster, K Szilagyi, A Wairegi, C Oguamanam… - Smart Agricultural …, 2022
Precision agriculture, including the deployment of robotic farm workers, artificial
intelligence (AI) driven equipment, and corresponding “smart” systems, is being
enthusiastically lauded for improving crop yields, strengthening food security …
S Singla
Word embeddings exhibit biases such as racial and gender biases due to the
presence of these biases in the training corpus. Usage of these algorithms can
increase the stereotypes in various contexts. We present a simple and generalizable …
2022-08-32
SA Ritz Links to an external site., L Greaves - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Accounting for the influences of sex-and gender-related factors on health is one of the most
interesting and important challenges in contemporary health research. In biomedical
research, models, experimental designs, and statistical analyses create particular
challenges in attempting to incorporate the complex, dynamic, and context-dependent
constructs of sex and gender. Here, we offer conceptual elaborations of the constructs of sex
and gender and discuss their application in biomedical research, including a more …
Including sex and gender considerations in health research is considered essential by many funders and is very useful for policy makers, program developers, clinicians, consumers and other end users. While longstanding confusions and conflations of terminology in the sex and gender field are well documented, newer conceptual confusions and conflations continue to emerge. Contemporary social demands for improved health and equity, as well as increased interest in precision healthcare and medicine, have made obvious the need for sex and gender science, sex and gender-based analyses (SGBA+), considerations of intersectionality, and equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives (EDI) to broaden representation among participants and diversify research agendas. But without a shared and precise understanding of these conceptual areas, fields of study, and approaches and their inter-relationships, more conflation and confusion can occur. This article sets out these areas and argues for more precise operationalization of sex- and gender-related factors in health research and policy initiatives in order to advance these varied agendas in mutually supportive ways.
K Albert, M Delano - Patterns, 2022
False assumptions that sex and gender are binary, static, and concordant are deeply
embedded in the medical system. As machine learning researchers use medical
data to build tools to solve novel problems, understanding how existing systems …
MA Ricci Lara, R Echeveste, E Ferrante - Nature Communications, 2022
A plethora of work has shown that AI systems can systematically and unfairly be
biased against certain populations in multiple scenarios. The field of medical
imaging, where AI systems are beginning to be increasingly adopted, is no exception
A Fawzy Links to an external site., TD Wu, K Wang Links to an external site., ML Robinson Links to an external site.… - JAMA Internal …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
… data, although all the aforementioned biases are associated with systematic underdiagnosis
of … to characterize relative biases in pulse oximetry, the absolute biases identified among all …
- Call for proposals from the US National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women’s Health: ORWH is pleased to announce a new program, Galvanizing Health Equity Through Novel and Diverse Educational Resources (GENDER) R25 Links to an external site.. The GENDER R25 will help meet the need for sex- and gender-specific training in science, medicine, and allied health professions by supporting the development of sex- and gender-focused courses, curricula, and methods. Funded projects will result in curricula, courses, and methods that can be widely utilized across disciplines and made available through the ORWH Interprofessional Education Portal Links to an external site. to ensure wide dissemination. The first due dates are October 27, 2022 (non-AIDS) and January 7, 2023 (AIDS). ORWH will hold a technical assistance webinar for the GENDER R25 on September 21, 2022 at 4:00 PM ET (register in advance Links to an external site.). We strongly encourage you to submit questions in advance to Elizabeth Barr, Ph.D., elizabeth.barr@nih.gov. The webinar will be recorded, and a recording will be shared with registrants after the event.
A Sólmundsdóttir, D Guðmundsdóttir, LB Stefánsdóttir…
This paper examines machine bias in language technology. Machine bias can affect
machine learning algorithms when language models trained on large corpora
include biased human decisions or reflect historical or social inequities, eg …
- Performance Disparities Between Accents in Automatic Speech Recognition Links to an external site. (not yet published)
A DiChristofano, H Shuster, S Chandra, N Patwari - arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01157, 2022
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) services are ubiquitous, transforming speech
into text for systems like Amazon's Alexa, Google's Assistant, and Microsoft's Cortana.
However, researchers have identified biases in ASR performance between …
K Durrheim, M Schuld, M Mafunda, S Mazibuko - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2022
Word embeddings provide quantitative representations of word semantics and the
associations between word meanings in text data, including in large repositories in
media and social media archives. This article introduces social psychologists to …
K Beelen, J Lawrence, D Wilson, D Beavan - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2022
This article introduces the ‘Environmental Scan’ as answer to the question of hidden
biases in digital heritage collections. Its substantive focus is digitized nineteenth-century
British provincial newspapers, and in particular the JISC corpus, a popular, publicly-funded …
E Fosch-Villaronga, A Poulsen - Law and Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Discrimination and bias are inherent problems of many AI applications, as seen in,
for instance, face recognition systems not recognizing dark-skinned women and
content moderator tools silencing drag queens online. These outcomes may derive
M Marini, PD Waterman, ER Breedlove, JT Chen… - Journal of Racial and Ethnic …, 2022
Recent studies showed that implicit measures are valuable instruments for
assessing exposure to discrimination and predicting negative physical conditions.
Between March 10, 2020, and April 1, 2020, we conducted three experiments (577
D Kool, NH Azevedo, L Avraamidou - Educational Media International, 2022
Popular films can influence the public’s image of women scientists and (re)shape
social stereotypes. In this study, we examined how women scientists were portrayed
in films in the context of fourth-wave feminism. Twelve characters of women …
- Finally, our Intersectional Design cards are now available internationally through our international distributor:
2022-07-02
- US NIH Gender and Health Scientific Workshop Abstract Submissions Due by July 18
Save the date for a free scientific workshop on gender and health hosted by ORWH and a variety of partners, occurring Wednesday, October 26, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT. The virtual workshop Links to an external site. is titled “Gender and Health: Impacts of Structural Sexism, Gender Norms, Relational Power Dynamics, and Gender Inequities”. Poster abstracts that focus on gender and health are being accepted through Monday, July 18. Visit the abstract submission portal Links to an external site. for more details and learn about the workshop objectives here Links to an external site..
- White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) RFI
The White House Lab-to-Market (L2M) Subcommittee recently published a Request for Information (RFI) on How to make access to the innovation-ecosystem more inclusive and equitable Links to an external site.. It seeks information from the public to improve inclusive and equitable access to Federal programs to in the U.S. to those underrepresented in the innovation ecosystem. The responses to this RFI will inform the White House (OSTP) on work to improve existing programs and develop new programs to broaden participation in the Federally-funded R&D ecosystem.
- Nature Portfolio Reporting Summary Links to an external site.—includes sex and gender analysis, age, genotypic information, etc.
JE Krstacic, BM Carr, AR Yaligar, AS Kuruvilla Links to an external site.… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Introduction In December 2017, Lancet called for gender inequality investigations. Holding
other factors constant, trends over time for significant author (ie, first, second, last or any of
these authors) publications were examined for the three highest-impact medical research
journals (ie, New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM], Journal of the American Medical
Association [JAMA], and Lancet). Materials and methods Using randomly sampled 2002-
2019 MEDLINE original publications (n= 1,080; 20/year/journal), significant author-based …
5. [not yet published, but of interest] Citation inequity and gendered citation practices in contemporary physics Links to an external site.
EG Teich, JZ Kim Links to an external site., CW Lynn Links to an external site., SC Simon… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The historical and contemporary under-attribution of women's contributions to scientific
scholarship is well-known and well-studied, with effects that are felt today in myriad ways by
women scientists. One measure of this under-attribution is the so-called citation gap
between men and women: the under-citation of papers authored by women relative to
expected rates coupled with a corresponding over-citation of papers authored by men
relative to expected rates. We explore the citation gap in contemporary physics, analyzing …
J White Links to an external site., J Clayton - Med, 2022 - Elsevier
Systemic sources of the gender health innovation gap include inattention to the effects of sex
and gender on health, underinvestment in health conditions relevant to or limited to women,
workforce diversity inequities, and societal attitudes. The US federal government instituted
policies and programs to address these challenges and demonstrate commitment to closing
this gap with the development of the first National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality.
2022-06-16
NPQIP Collaborative Group… - BMJ Open …, 2019 - openscience.bmj.com
Objective To determine whether a change in editorial policy, including the implementation of
a checklist, has been associated with improved reporting of measures which might reduce
the risk of bias. Methods The study protocol has been published at doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-
1964-8.
- The Health Agency of Catalonia just released its new sex and gender in health research toolkit: https://aquas.gencat.cat/ca/ambits/recerca-salut/responsable/genere/eina-incorporacio-perspectiva-genere-recerca/index.html#googtrans(ca|en) Links to an external site.
- Call for Contributions for the 2nd edition of the GenR Workshop at RO-MAN 2022 Links to an external site. – Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics, August 29. The 2022 workshop builds on the GenR 2021 workshop – Gendering Robots: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics, which was held as part of RO-MAN on August 12th, 2021. The organizers aim to bring together researchers interested in the gendering of robots and its resultant impact on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
- The Harvard GenderSci Lab has a new article in Science on “Law, Policy, Biology, and Sex Links to an external site..” This Policy Forum article is the outcome of two years of intensive study and engagement with the rising strategy of appeals to biology and science in discriminatory law and policy.
- TFOS DEWS II sex, gender, and hormones report Links to an external site. DA Sullivan Links to an external site., EM Rocha Links to an external site., P Aragona Links to an external site., JA Clayton, J Ding Links to an external site.… - The ocular …, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the most compelling features of dry eye disease (DED) is that it occurs more
frequently in women than men.
- "Sex and gender differences in depressive symptoms in older workers: the role of working conditions Links to an external site.. BMC Public Health (2022) 22:1023. Older female workers and older feminine workers have more depressive symptoms than their male/ masculine counterparts. Autonomy and task variation appeared to be important in – partially – explaining gender differences in depressive symptoms rather than sex differences. By improving these conditions, gender inequality in mental health among older workers can be reduced, so that both genders have similar chances to reach the retirement age in good mental health.
- L Schiebinger, “Integrating Sex, Gender, and Intersectional Analysis into Bioengineering Links to an external site.,” Current Opinions of Biomedical Engineering, 22 (2022), 1-6. This is part of a special issue on Biomedical engineering and women's health: Breaking new ground in gender- and sex-specific research, by Nimmi Ramanujam: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-biomedical-engineering/vol/22/suppl/C#article-13 Links to an external site. .
N Kim, L Schiebinger - Sex/Gender-Specific Medicine in the Gastrointestinal …
Medical researchers and clinicians recognize that it is important to understand
differences related to age, for example, between young and old peo-ple. Similarly, it
is important to understand the physiological/physical differences parities may be …
K Reue, CB Wiese - Circulation Research, 2022
Sex is a key risk factor for many types of cardiovascular disease. It is imperative to
understand the mechanisms underlying sex differences to devise optimal preventive
and therapeutic approaches for all individuals.
SO Sabbaghi, A Caliskan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01691, 2022
Does the grammatical gender of a language interfere when measuring the semantic
gender information captured by its word embeddings? A number of anomalous
gender bias measurements in the embeddings of gendered languages suggest this …
11. The Persistence of Sex Bias in High-Impact Clinical Research Links to an external site.
MH Barlek, JR Rouan, TG Wyatt, I Helenowski… - Journal of Surgical …, 2022
Introduction Sex bias is present in clinical research resulting in disparities in the
treatment of women. Our objective was to identify the prevalence of sex
inclusiveness of participants in human clinical trials after the passage of National …
NB Hentzen, MT Ferretti, A Santuccione, J Jaarsma… - European Journal of Neurology
Background Neurological disorders pose a profound unmet medical need for which
new solutions are urgently needed. The consideration of both biological (sex) and
socio‐cultural (gender) differences between men and women is necessary to …
A Urman, M Makhortykh - New Media & Society, 2022
Search engines serve as information gatekeepers on a multitude of topics dealing
with different aspects of society. However, the ways search engines filter and rank
information are prone to biases related to gender, ethnicity, and race. In this article …
2022-05-22
3. Conference on Gender dimensions in physics and other math-intensive research and teaching (https://indico.desy.de/e/gedimirt Links to an external site. ), to be held in Lund, Sweden on June 22-23, 2022, organized by Tomas Brage: 20th of May, deadline for guaranteed participation in the conference dinner, 750 SEK (ca 70 Euro) including dinner and coffee. 10th of June, deadline for registration for (1250 SEK = ca 1100 Euro for IRL participation).
entrapment, frequency of injury and outcomes following a motor vehicle collision. Publishing
sex-disaggregated data, understanding differential patterns and exploring the reasons for
these will assist with ensuring equity of outcomes especially in respect to triage, rescue and
treatment of all patients. Design We examined data from the Trauma Audit and Research
Network (TARN) registry to explore sex differences in entrapment, injuries and outcomes
in the NLP community. Here, we present a method for extracting age-related
stereotypes from English language Twitter data, generating a corpus of 300,000 over-generalizations …
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Gender is increasingly being explored as a social characteristic ascribed to robots
by people. Yet, research involving social robots that may be gendered tends not to address gender perceptions, such as through pilot studies or manipulation checks … JC Jackson, JG Payumo, AJ Jamison, ML Conteh… - Frontiers in Research …, 2022
Africa's focus on science, technology, and innovation (STI) has grown over the last
decade, with emerging examples of good practice. There are however numerous challenges to sustainable development in Africa; for example, inequalities |
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services. However, some initial applications yielded disappointing results, as
managers were unaware of the level of development of the robots’ artificial …
audience to present what it is like to have disabilities. Thus, it is imperative to
understand how content creators with disabilities strategically interact with …
skilled workforce is needed. Considering the crucial role distributed and renewable
energy (DRE) is expected to play in achieving sustainable development goal (SDG) …
effects of sex and gender on health, underinvestment in health conditions relevant to
or limited to women, workforce diversity inequities, and societal attitudes. The US …
very beginning and throughout the research process. This article highlights
techniques for analyzing sex, how sex and sex interact, how sex and gender interact …
social sciences. Although it is known that children learn aspects of gender
association at a young age, it is not well understood how they might emerge through
2022-05-09
1. Workshop Series on the Gender Dimension in (European) Research – next workshop on artificial intelligence Links to an external site.. On May 24, the third workshop in this series launched by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will take place – as always in online form to enable participation regardless of place: "Overcoming human bias – Sex and gender in research on artificial intelligence". The workshop will start at 9.30 am and end at 3 pm (CEST). The workshop language is English. No participation fee is required. Participants are warmly invited to contribute with their questions and comments.
Y Prinzellner. Social robots are often envisioned as companions for older adults and chronically ill
people to support them in everyday life (taking medication, staying physically active,
etc.). For all these tasks a high-level of personalization is required, in order to …
3. Differentiating Sex and Gender Among Older Men and Women Links to an external site.
A Pohrt Links to an external site., F Kendel, I Demuth, J Drewelies Links to an external site.… - Psychosomatic …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective This study aimed to paradigmatically show the development of a gender score that
can be used as either an adjustment or a matching variable to separate the effects of gender
versus biological sex in a sample of older adults. Methods Our sample comprised 1100
participants from the Berlin Aging Study II (52% women, mean [standard deviation] age=
75.6 [3.8] years). The gender score included a multitude of gender-related variables and
was constructed via logistic regression. In models of health outcomes, it was used as an
A Câmara, N Taneja, T Azad, E Allaway, R Zemel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03558, 2022
As natural language processing systems become more widespread, it is necessary
to address fairness issues in their implementation and deployment to ensure that
their negative impacts on society are understood and minimized. However, there is
M Kuppler - Scientometrics, 2022
The advent of large-scale bibliographic databases and powerful prediction
algorithms led to calls for data-driven approaches for targeting scarce funds at
researchers with high predicted future scientific impact. The potential side-effects …
KR Siegersma, RR van de Leur, NC Onland-Moret… - European Heart Journal …, 2022
Background Incorporation of sex in study design can lead to discoveries in medical
research. Deep neural networks (DNN) accurately predict sex based on the
electrocardiogram (ECG) and we hypothesized that misclassification of sex is an
H Park, O Dewidar, E Tanjong-Ghogomu, V Welch - University of Ottawa Journal of …, 2022
Objectives: Sex and gender based analysis may improve understanding of
transitions from long term care to community or health services. Our study aims to
assess how sex or gender was reported and analyzed in studies about care
8. Investigating Implicit Gender Bias in Crowd-Authored Language for Social Robots Links to an external site. [check preprint]
M Paetzel-Prüsmann, G Perugia Links to an external site. - researchgate.net
In this paper, we introduce an experimental design to investigate the influence of a robot's
gender on the dialogue content authored by crowd-workers online. We build upon a
previously developed crowd-authoring pipeline but exchange the original task description
with one that explicitly reveals the robot as being masculine, feminine, or gender neutral. In
addition, we provide crowd-authors with personality traits that are traditionally associated
with either masculinity or femininity to understand whether there is a combined effect of a
L Hallam, A Vassallo, AC Pinho-Gomes, C Carcel… - Journal of Women's Health, 2022
Background: Historically, women's health has focused on reproductive health.
However, noncommunicable and communicable diseases comprise much of the
burden of disease in women. Methods: A quantitative analysis of the main health …
10. I want to congratulate Holly Falk-Krzesinski for her hard work on the multi-publisher Joint Commitment group launch of endorsed schemas for collecting self-reported gender identity and race/ethnicity data globally. Please see the [Press%20Release]Press Release and website Web site Links to an external site. for more information. Another shoutout goes to Carolee Lee. Recently WHAM and AHA hosted a roundtable featuring highlights from their report, please see here Links to an external site..
2022-03-03
Two Announcements:
- Bringing Gender and Sex Together: Transdisciplinary Theories and Methodologies Links to an external site.. The Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex Research (COGS) is holding its 2nd International Meeting. The meeting will highlight novel transdisciplinary perspectives on gender and sex research. This is an in-person meeting taking place in Montréal, Quebec, May 29-31, 2022.
- Stanford Medical School featuring guest speaker Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, MD, PhD, MSc, Sex and Gender Matter- Now What?: incorporating Sex and Gender in Biomedical Research, March 23, 2022, 10am-11am PST, On ZOOM, Register here Links to an external site.. Hosted by the Stanford WHSDM Center (Women & Sex Differences in Medicine).
Let's talk about (biological) sex Links to an external site.
I Miguel-Aliaga - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
… an interest in sex differences is the incorrect use of sex and gender — in particular, the use
of the latter as a synonym for the former. Sex refers to biological attributes that distinguish …
Gender Disparity Trends in Authorship of Hand Surgery Research Links to an external site.
RF Xu, NH Varady, AF Chen, BE Earp - The Journal of Hand Surgery, 2022
Purpose Despite an overall trend towards gender parity, women continue to remain
underrepresented in surgical fields. Until recently, women’s representation in hand
surgery literature was largely unexplored. The objective of this study was to examine …
The giant plan to track diversity in research journals Links to an external site.
Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.
Survey of gender bias in the IPCC Links to an external site.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs to do more to include the contributions of women, even as numbers and policies improve. In 2018, the IPCC established the Task Group on Gender to advise how to achieve the fair representation and broad expertise required for the best possible climate-policy knowledge. Childcare needs, lack of resources, gatekeeping and many more factors Links to an external site. are limiting the equity in working groups, they write.
Nature | 9 min read Links to an external site.
In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms:
https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509548811 Links to an external site.
Gendered Innovations’ case study on Inclusive Crash Test Dummies Links to an external site. features in a U.S. Congressional effort Links to an external site. to include latest generation female crash test dummies in new car testing. The issue is that current female crash test dummies used by the NHTSA are simply scaled down versions of the male and do not model average female muscle and ligament strength, spinal alignment, and dynamic responses to trauma. As a result, belt-restrained female drivers are 47% more likely to sustain serious injury than males, when controlling for weight and body mass. From an intersectional point of view, elderly females and obese males are also among the most likely to be injured.
Textbook typologies: Challenging the myth of the perfect obstetric pelvis Links to an external site.
C VanSickle, KL Liese, JN Rutherford - The Anatomical Record, 2022
Medical education’s treatment of obstetric‐related anatomy exemplifies historical
sex bias in medical curricula. Foundational obstetric and midwifery textbooks teach
that clinical pelvimetry and the Caldwell–Moloy classification system are used to …
M Rodriguez, R Barthelemy, M McCormick - Physical Review Physics Education …, 2022
More progress is needed to achieve equity in racial and gender representation in
the push to diversify the physical sciences. In order to continue moving towards
representation and equity, there is a need for more analytic tools that can help us
A Gastounioti Links to an external site., S Desai… - Breast Cancer …, 2022 - breast-cancer-research …
Improved breast cancer risk assessment models are needed to enable personalized
screening strategies that achieve better harm-to-benefit ratio based on earlier detection and
better breast cancer outcomes than existing screening guidelines. Computational
mammographic phenotypes have demonstrated a promising role in breast cancer risk
prediction. With the recent exponential growth of computational efficiency, the artificial
intelligence (AI) revolution, driven by the introduction of deep learning, has expanded the …
E Röösli, S Bozkurt, T Hernandez-Boussard - Scientific Data, 2022
As artificial intelligence (AI) makes continuous progress to improve quality of care for
some patients by leveraging ever increasing amounts of digital health data, others
are left behind. Empirical evaluation studies are required to keep biased AI models …
2022-01-20
Hot off the press: Diversifying history: A large-scale analysis of changes in researcher demographics and scholarly agendas Links to an external site.
Stephan Risi, Mathias W. Nielsen,…Londa Schiebinger. In recent years, interest has grown in whether and to what extent demographic diversity sparks discovery and innovation in research. At the same time, topic modeling has been employed to discover differences in what women and men write about. This study engages these two strands of scholarship to explore associations between changing researcher demographics and research questions asked in the discipline of history. Specifically, we analyze developments in history as women entered the field.
This is in an archive (not published yet) Sex, Gender, and Diversity Analysis in Research Policies of Major Public Granting Agencies: A Global Review Links to an external site.. Happy for comments.
L Hunt, L Schiebinger - 2021
National research agencies are funded by taxpayer monies and, as such, are responsible for promoting excellent research that benefits all of society. Integrating sex, gender and diversity analysis (SG&DA) into the design of research, where relevant, can improve research methodology and provide new insights. This study reviews those policies for agencies across six continents. Our study developed a five-part SG&DA policy roadmap for agencies and collected best practices across that guide. Standard practices, tailored as appropriate to country-specific cultures and regulatory landscapes, will enhance collaboration potential, global equity, research excellence and reproducibility.
Modelling the Human Rights Approach to Science Education Links to an external site.
T Tajmel - STEM Education
The aim of this chapter is to highlight different, albeit mutually interacting dimensions
which shape and enable or disable access to what is broadly understood as science
or STEM education. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and
Gender-sensitive word embeddings for healthcare Links to an external site.
S Agmon, P Gillis, E Horvitz, K Radinsky - Journal of the American Medical …, 2021
Women have been underrepresented in clinical trials. Thus, using the broad clinical trials literature as training data for statistical language models could result in biased models, with deficits in knowledge about women. The method presented enables gender-sensitive use of publications as training data for word embed-dings. In experiments, the gender-sensitive embeddings show better performance than baseline embeddings for the clinical tasks studied. The results highlight opportunities for recognizing and addressing gender and other representational biases in the clinical trials literature. Addressing representational biases in data for training NLP embeddings can lead to better results on downstream tasks for underrepresented populations.
L Ding, D Yu, J Xie, W Guo, S Hu, M Liu, L Kong, H Dai… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021
With widening deployments of natural language processing (NLP) in daily life,
inherited social biases from NLP models have become more severe and problematic.
Previous studies have shown that word embeddings trained on human-generated …
Fabrizio Bert, Edoardo Boietti, Stefano Rousset et al. 2022
Gender medicine is crucial to reduce health inequalities. Knowledge about students’ attitudes and beliefs regarding men, women and gender is important to improve gender medicine courses. The aim of this study is to evaluate gender stereotypes and its predictors in Italian medical students. We performed an online cross-sectional study among students from the University of Turin. We used the validated Nijmegen Gender Awareness Scale in Medicine scale to explore gender sensitivity and stereotypes.
Recent developments include the growth of “femtech,” a term-of-art created in 2016, which refers “to a category of software, diagnostics, products, and services that use technology to focus on women's health” (Rosas, 2019, p. 320). If you see good articles on it, please let me know. Here is news from the NIH Office on Research on Women’s Health: We are seeing a burst in the FemTech [feminine technology] industry, which includes devices, products, software platforms, and services that address women’s health and wellness. Some of the innovations include early detection of ovarian cancer, protection from anemia and ovarian and endometrial cancer, replacing mammograms with a saliva test, bioelectric treatment for sinus pain and congestion, foods promoting early digestive health of babies and toddlers, and early detection of epileptic seizures.
Re‐examining our roots: Queer history and anatomy Links to an external site.
TC Smith - The Anatomical Record, 2022
Since its establishment as one of the major authorities on the human body, Anatomy
has played a crucial role in social and political spheres. In this article, I review how
the history of Anatomy has intersected with queer history and how the effects of …
Biomedical Innovation for Everyone, Bias-Free Links to an external site., article by Leslie Mertz, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
2021-12-12
- **Importantly, the new coalition government in Germany addressed “gender medicine” in their platform. “Gender medicine” means the study of sex and gender differences in health and medicine. They state: to promote “diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free healthcare…gender medicine will become part of medical studies and of education and training of health professions.” On page 86, https://www.spd.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Koalitionsvertrag/Koalitionsvertrag_2021-2025.pdf Links to an external site..
- You can submit a paper for the: Diversity in Research Paper Award Links to an external site. from the Human Brain Project. Deadline, 21 Dec 2021.
M Farisco, J De Felipe, A Morrison, A Salles
The DIRPA call invites applications for the Best Diversity in Research Papers, i.e.
publications that consider diversity traits such as sex, gender, age, ethnicity, etc. in
their specific field of research. Differentiating variables have been recognised to be …
A Gogovor, HTV Zomahoun, G Ekanmian, ÉL Adisso… - 2021
Despite growing recognition of the importance of sex and
gender considerations in health research, they are rarely integrated into research
design and reporting. We sought to assess the integration of sex, as a biological …
2021-11-26
1. Very interesting report of the US Preventive Service’s revamping of their recommendations for health screenings to be inclusive of intersex, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming populations.
USPSTF Approach to Addressing Sex and Gender When Making Recommendations for Clinical Preventive Services Links to an external site.
AB Caughey Links to an external site., AH Krist Links to an external site., TA Wolff, MJ Barry… - JAMA, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Clinical preventive service recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force
(USPSTF) are based on transparent, systematic, and rigorous methods that consider the
certainty of the evidence and magnitude of net benefit. These guidelines aim to address the
needs of diverse populations. Biological sex and gender identity are sources of diversity that
are not often considered in studies of clinical preventive services that inform the
recommendations, resulting in challenges when evaluating the evidence and …
G Bolte, K Jacke, K Groth, U Kraus Links to an external site., L Dandolo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is a growing awareness about the need to comprehensively integrate sex and gender
into health research in order to enhance the validity and significance of research results. An
in-depth consideration of differential exposures and vulnerability is lacking, especially within
environmental risk assessment. Thus, the interdisciplinary team of the collaborative research
project INGER (integrating gender into environmental health research) aimed to develop a
multidimensional sex/gender concept as a theoretically grounded starting point for the …
CE Sanchez-Pimienta Links to an external site., JR Masuda Links to an external site.… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Numerous tools for addressing gender inequality in governmental policies, programs, and
research have emerged across the globe. Unfortunately, such tools have largely failed to
account for the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples' lives and lands. In Canada,
Indigenous organizations have advanced gender-based analysis frameworks that are
culturally-grounded and situate the understanding of gender identities, roles, and
responsibilities within and across diverse Indigenous contexts. However, there is limit
- Important article reviewing sex and gender in reporting guidelines, e.g., for animal research, the ARRIVE guidelines.
Sex and gender considerations in reporting guidelines for health research: a systematic Links to an external site.
A Gogovor, HTV Zomahoun, G Ekanmian, ÉL Adisso… Biology of Sex Differences - 2021
Despite growing recognition of the importance of sex and gender considerations in health research, they are rarely integrated into research design and reporting. We sought to assess the integration of sex, as a biological attribute, and gender, as a socially constructed identity, in published reporting guidelines. Methods: We conducted a systematic review of published reporting guidelines listed on the EQUATOR website (www.equator-nework.org) from inception until December 2018. We selected all reporting guidelines (original and extensions) listed in the EQUATOR library. We used EndNote Citation Software to build a database of the statements of each guideline identifed as a "full bibliographic reference" and retrieved the full texts. Reviewers independently extracted the data on use of sex and gender terms from the checklist/abstract/main text of guidelines. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and narrative synthesis. Results: A total of 407 reporting guidelines were included; they were published between 1995 and 2018. Of the 407 guidelines, 235 (57.7%) mentioned at least one of the sex- and gender-related words. In the checklist of the reporting guidelines (n=363), “sex” and “gender” were mentioned in 50 (13.8%) and 40 (11%), respectively. Only one reporting guideline met our criteria (nonbinary, appropriate categorization, and non-interchangeability) for correct use of sex and gender concepts. Trends in the use of "sex" and "gender" in the checklists showed that the use of “sex” only started in 2003, while “gender” has been in use since 1996. Conclusions: We assessed the integration of sex and gender in reporting guidelines based on the use of sex- and gender-related words. Our fndings showed a low use and integration of sex and gender concepts and their incorrect use. Authors of reporting guidelines should reduce this gap for a better use of research knowledge. Trial registration PROSPERO no. CRD42019136491.
5. A robot to clean-up the kitchen? I wish!
BEHAVIOR: Benchmark for Everyday Household Activities in Virtual, Interactive, and Ecological Environments Links to an external site.
S Srivastava, C Li Links to an external site., M Lingelbach Links to an external site.… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We introduce BEHAVIOR, a benchmark for embodied AI with 100 activities in simulation,
spanning a range of everyday household chores such as cleaning, maintenance, and food
preparation. These activities are designed to be realistic, diverse, and complex, aiming to
reproduce the challenges that agents must face in the real world. Building such a
benchmark poses three fundamental difficulties for each activity: definition (it can differ by
time, place, or person), instantiation in a simulator, and evaluation. BEHAVIOR addresses …
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6. Embedded ethics to teach machine learning courses: an experience Links to an external site.
E Cernadas, M Fernández-Delgado - 2021 XI International Conference on Virtual Campus …
Artificial intelligence offers many possibilities, some can improve the well-being of people, but others can be harmful to citizens, especially women. Examples are hiring decision support systems, criminal justice, facial and voice recognition, or machine translators. In order to make students aware of the development of these intelligent systems in the future, it is necessary to incorporate specific ethics content with a gender perspective as a transversal competence in university degrees and masters related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this paper we present the experiences in two subjects of machine learning, one undergraduate and one master, which are taught for the first time in the academic year 2020-2021 at the University of Santiago de Compostela. The activity allowed students to reflect on ethical and gender issues in the exercise of their professional future for the development of machine learning systems.
- Gendered Innovations Intersectional Design Cards Links to an external site. are now for sale—and distributed via Stanford University Press. I’m sorry there is a charge to cover costs. (At the moment, they are available in the US only. We are working on that.) Everything is also freely available on our website. Intersectional Design drives innovation while supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. It's about getting the design right for people across all of society—from the very beginning. Intersectional Design considers overlapping or "intersecting" factors—including gender, ethnicity, age, geographic location, etc.—that interact to shape a person's or a group's experience and social opportunities as a starting point for a more inclusive design approach. The Intersectional Design Cards feature 12 intersectional factors, 4 design levels, and 16 case studies. The case studies tell the story of intersectional design—from inclusive crash test dummies, to voice assistants, to social robots, urban design, medical technologies, smart mobility, water infrastructure, marine science, and more.
8. Cross Interview on Women's and Gender Studies in the Field of the History of Science and Knowledge Links to an external site.
I Lémonon-Waxin - Cahiers François Viète, 2021 - hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
The publication of a special issue of the Cahiers François Viète combining women's and
gender studies and the history of science and knowledge is an opportunity to take a
historiographical and reflexive look at the evolution of this field of research over the past
thirty years. This contribution invites the dialogue of several historians of science and
knowledge who have contributed to the construction of the fields of women's and gender
studies. This conversation does not aim to present all the developments in the humanities …
9. Diversity in transition: Is transitions research diverse (enough)? Links to an external site.
S Preuß, R Galvin, B Ghosh, E Dütschke - Environmental Innovation and Societal …, 2021
Recently diversity in transitions research has achieved increasing attention. Many diversity dimensions such as gender and geographical location, as well as their intersections, should be considered to achieve successful and just transitions. Currently, transitions research is diverse in some aspects, but the broader framework for diverse transitions research is lacking. In this contribution, (i) we outline why diversity should be considered in the transitions research agenda, (ii) we demonstrate the extent of diversity in current transitions research, (iii) we provide examples of how diversity can be considered in transitions research, and (iv) we give recommendations to achieve a diversification of transitions research. From our perspective, social diversity deserves more attention in the next decade of transitions research, to enable just sustainable transitions - for everyone.
2021-11-18
MO Akubo - 2021
… Citing the work of Schiebinger, Götschel argues that gendered practices and
ideologies have structured scientific knowledge (Schiebinger, 2008, in Götschel,
2011). Participation practices are part of what define classroom structures. Larger
2021-10-23
- A marvelous new resource for quantitative Intersectional Analysis from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research by Professor Greta Bauer: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Quantitative intersectional study design and primary data collection: https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52352.html Links to an external site.; Questions to guide quantitative intersectional analyses: https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52676.html Links to an external site. (2021).
- Gender disparity in the funding of diseases by the US National Institutes of Health Links to an external site.
AA Mirin - Journal of Women's Health, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Background: Gender bias has been an ongoing issue in health care, examples being
underrepresentation of women in health studies, trivialization of women's physical
complaints, and discrimination in the awarding of research grants. We examine here a
different issue—gender disparity when it comes to the allocation of research funding among
diseases. Materials and Methods: We perform an analysis of funding by the US National
Institutes of Health (NIH) to ascertain possible gender disparity in its allocation of funds
NC Woitowich Links to an external site., A Beery Links to an external site., T Woodruff Links to an external site. - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
In 2016, to address the historical overrepresentation of male subjects in biomedical
research, the US National Institutes of Health implemented a policy requiring investigators to
consider sex as a biological variable. In order to assess the impact of this policy, we
conducted a bibliometric analysis across nine biological disciplines for papers published in
34 journals in 2019, and compared our results with those of a similar study carried out by
Beery and Zucker in 2009. There was a significant increase in the proportion of studies that
DA Bangasser Links to an external site., A Cuarenta - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Epidemiological sex differences in anxiety disorders and major depression are well
characterized. Yet the circuits and mechanisms that contribute to these differences are
understudied, because preclinical studies have historically excluded female rodents. This
oversight is beginning to be addressed, and recent studies that include male and female
rodents are identifying sex differences in neurobiological processes that underlie features of
these disorders, including conflict anxiety, fear processing, arousal, social avoidance …
T Adair Links to an external site., USH Gamage, L Mikkelsen, R Joshi Links to an external site. - BMJ Global Health, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Recent studies suggest that more male than female deaths are registered and a
higher proportion of female deaths are certified as 'garbage'causes (ie, vague or ill-defined
causes of limited policy value). This can reduce the utility of sex-specific mortality statistics
for governments to address health problems. To assess whether there are sex differences in
completeness and quality of data from civil registration and vital statistics systems, we
analysed available global death registration and cause of death data. Methods …
MF Fox Links to an external site., DR Rueda, G Sonnert Links to an external site.… - … , & Human Values, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article focuses on key features of the use of sex and gender in titles of articles about
women, science, and engineering over an important forty-six-year period (1965–2010). The
focus is theoretically and empirically consequential. Theoretically, the paper addresses
science as a critical case that connects femininity/masculinity to social stratification; and the
use of sex and gender as an enduring, analytical issue that reveals perspectives on
hierarchies of femininity/masculinity. Empirically, this article identifies the emergence …
J Müller, E Pollitzer - genderportal.eu
Integrating sex and gender analysis into research and innovation (R&I) enhances the quality
and impact of scientific results as well as products and services developed for the market.
Given the historic under-representation of women in science and certain areas of the labor
market, it is not surprising that knowledge itself is biased, having a higher male footprint.
S Hassan Links to an external site., M Huenerfauth Links to an external site., CO Alm Links to an external site. - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.00521, 2021 - arxiv.org
Much of the world's population experiences some form of disability during their lifetime.
Caution must be exercised while designing natural language processing (NLP) systems to
prevent systems from inadvertently perpetuating ableist bias against people with disabilities,
ie, prejudice that favors those with typical abilities. We report on various analyses based on
word predictions of a large-scale BERT language model. Statistically significant results
demonstrate that people with disabilities can be disadvantaged. Findings also explore …
T Wang Links to an external site., J Zhao Links to an external site., M Yatskar Links to an external site.… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this work, we present a framework to measure and mitigate intrinsic biases with respect to
protected variables-such as gender-in visual recognition tasks. We show that trained models
significantly amplify the association of target labels with gender beyond what one would
expect from biased datasets. Surprisingly, we show that even when datasets are balanced
such that each label co-occurs equally with each gender, learned models amplify the
association between labels and gender, as much as if data had not been balanced! To
2021-10-02
- Why Gender is Relevant to Materials Science and Engineering, Elizabeth Pollitzer, MRS Communications (2021), 10.1557/s43579-021-00093-1
For historical reasons science today has substantially more evidence for males and men than for females and women, which means that quality of research and innovation outcomes may often be worse for women than for men. I explore how the gender dimension—a term used to mean effects of biological (sex) and/or socio-cultural (gender) characteristics—fits into new materials research and engineering and especially in nano-materials applications. Horizon Europe expects that grant proposals should include explanation if gender dimension is relevant to the project’s objectives. This paper shows that often the answer should be yes it is.
- Dr. Susanne Maaß and Dr. Claude Draude have developed practical methods for technology development: Gender-Extended Research and Development Model (GERD): https://www.gerd-model.com Links to an external site. The GERD model has been designed for use in the tech industry and related research fields. It provides knowledge and guidelines for teams across the various phases of research and development. Have a look!
- This report is about gender equality in science organizations, not about research, but I found it of great interest: The report Gender Equality in Science: Inclusion and Participation of Women in Global Science Organizations: https://genderinsite.net/sites/default/files/GenderEqualityInScience_TwoGlobalSurveys.pdf Links to an external site. . They also have a dedicated website: https://council.science/publications/gender-equality-in-science/ Links to an external site.
N Adreak, K Srivaratharajah, KA Mullen, A Pike… - CJC Open, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite being the leading cause of death of women globally, cardiovascular disease (CVD)
research over the last several decades has focused primarily on men. CVD research has led
to progress in diagnosis and treatment, medical education, and public awareness; however,
few of these advances have applied specifically to women's cardiovascular health. There is
a paucity of sex-and gender-specific educational material regarding CVD in clinical training
programs for physicians. The irregularity in integrated curricula across medical schools in …
T Mollayeva Links to an external site., S Mollayeva, N Pacheco… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Although traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability
in male and female patients worldwide, little is known about the effect of sex and gender on
TBI outcomes. Objectives: This systematic review summarizes the evidence on the effect of
sex and gender on core TBI outcomes. Methods: All English-language studies from six
literature databases that addressed core outcomes in adults with TBI and included sex or
gender, TBI severity, and age in their analyses were considered eligible. Two reviewers …
2021-09-15
- New UN Environmental Programme report: Single-use menstrual products and their alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments Links to an external site. (2021).
- New OECD report: Gender and the Environment Links to an external site. (2021).
- Patent gap holds back inventions for women Links to an external site.: Only 16% of biomedical patents in 2010 were filed by teams consisting mostly of women. An analysis of 400,000 biomedical patents filed between 1976 and 2010 in the United States found that all-female teams were 35% more likely than all-male teams to invent technologies related to women’s health. If women and men had produced an equal number of patents since 1976, researchers estimate that there would be 6,500 more female-focused inventions today Links to an external site.. “We’d be better off with inventions that represent all of the knowledge and all the human capacity we have,” says sociologist Laurel Smith-Doerr. Nature | 6 min read Links to an external site.
- Gendering the smart city: A case study of Sejong City, Korea Links to an external site.
J Chang, J Choi, H An, HY Chung - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract District 2-2 (or Saerom-dong), located in Sejong smart city, is designated as a
'Specially Designed Zone for Women'. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the
gendered dimensions of this smart city district through gender analysis. This paper analyzes
the planning, implementation, and post-occupancy stages of the district through a review of
guidelines of gender-mainstreaming policies of Korean cities, interviews of experts involved,
and a survey of 100 residents to gain an insight into how users perceive the spatial aspects
- Day 2 of the Gender Summit tomorrow! https://www.gender-summit.com/gs20-2021-lac/gs20-programme Links to an external site. and register (free) https://www.gender-summit.com/gs20-2021-lac/gs20-registration Links to an external site.
- From the Bioinfo4women Programme, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), a Summary Report of the whole: http://bioinfo4women.bsc.es/sex-and-gender-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-and-health/ Links to an external site. (2021). Plus recordings of four public sessions: https://join.slack.com/t/bioinfo4women-ngk2389/shared_invite/zt-v0znxqxi-aqXd~VXuquUDDVhDBmhQAQ Links to an external site..
- [Elena Gissi, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, working on sex analysis in marine science with Prof. Fiorenza Micheli and Prof. Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University. Her message: I am the chair of the scientific session ME04 titled "Getting things right: Sex analysis for ocean science and conservation in response to climate change" at the Ocean Sciences Meetings 2022, which will take place in Hawaii, February 27 - March 4, 2022. As attachment the flyer with the abstract and the references, and here the link to the Sessions: https://www.aslo.org/osm2022/scientific-sessions/ Links to an external site.. I would like to kindly invite you to the call for abstract; deadline September 29, 2021.
- Job opportunity: At GREAT Agriculture we're working to build a more inclusive, equitable, and impactful agricultural research system, and we could use a helping hand! We're hiring a project manager to join the GREAT project management team, based at Cornell University's Department of Global Development. Qualified applicants will bring their passion for change, knowledge of gender and agricultural research systems, project management experience, and a winning attitude. More details are available on the position posting: tinyurl.com/great-pm-position Links to an external site.. Visa and relocation assistance are not available.
2021-08-09
- Today marks the United Nations' International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. In honor of the day, The Lancet has collated a special collection on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples around the world. Content in this collection that normally sits behind a paywall will be free to access with registration until Aug 16, 2021. Here it is: The Lancet: advancing racial equality resource centre Links to an external site.
2. A fascinating article: Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women's health, but few women get to invent Links to an external site.
R Koning Links to an external site., S Samila Links to an external site., JP Ferguson Links to an external site. - Science, 2021 - science.sciencemag.org
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect
what is invented. Using text analysis of all US biomedical patents filed from 1976 through
2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than all-male
3. Also fascinating: Analysis of Gender Stereotypes for the Design of Service Robots: Case Study on the Chinese Catering Market Links to an external site.
Z Wang, J Huang, C Fiammetta - Designing Interactive Systems …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Service robots are entering all kinds of business areas, and the outbreak of COVID-19
speeds up their application. Many studies have shown that robots with matching gender-
occupational roles receive larger acceptance. However, this can also enlarge the gender
bias in society. In this paper, we identified gender norms embedded in service robots by
iteratively coding 67 humanoid robot images collected from the Chinese e-commerce
platform Alibaba. We then generated four-step guidance for designers to identify and …
4. Important: Preventing fairness gerrymandering: Auditing and learning for subgroup fairness Links to an external site.
M Kearns Links to an external site., S Neel Links to an external site., A Roth Links to an external site.… - … Conference on Machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning fix a small collection of pre-
defined groups (such as race or gender), and then ask for approximate parity of some
statistic of the classifier (such as false positive rate) across these groups. Constraints of this
- Nature Outlook featuring Rhonda Voskuhl: The Importance of Sex Links to an external site.. Autoimmune disease is considerably more common in women than in men. The reasons why are just beginning to come into focus.
2021-07-23
- Of potential interest. The European Community has made a 15 minute video on Integrating Sex and Gender Analysis into Research and Innovation: [ACT%20on%20Gender%20Dimension]The Gender Dimension :
https://vimeo.com/547895277 Links to an external site.. There are also individual 15 minute interviews with Sabine Oertelt-Prigione on Health & Medicine, Rob Ellis on Marine Science, Holly Falk-Krzesinski on Peer-Reviewed Publishing, Martin Hultman on Climate and Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and me on Sex and Gender Analysis across Science and Technology: https://www.act-on-gender.eu/project-outcomes Links to an external site.
- Here is a European Research Council conference, SEX AND GENDER DIMENSION IN FRONTIER RESEARCH, from last November (not sure how I missed it!) Some excellent talks. Of note is Natasha Karp’s from AstraZeneca on sex bias in preclinical research, and Krishna Gummadi’s on gender bias in algorithmic decision making (something there on subpopulation gerrymandering): https://erc.europa.eu/event/sex-and-gender-dimension-frontier-research Links to an external site.. Other talks are also of interest, depending on your field.
- The Women’s Brain Project holds landmark second regulatory roundtable to advance progress towards sex and gender-considerations in precision medicine. https://www.womensbrainproject.com/second-regulatory-roundtable- Links to an external site.blog/
- Lack of consideration of sex and gender in COVID-19 clinical studies Links to an external site.
E Brady, MW Nielsen, JP Andersen, S Oertelt-Prigione - Nature Communications, 2021
Sex and gender differences impact the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection
and COVID-19 mortality. Furthermore, sex differences influence the frequency
and severity of pharmacological side effects. A large number of clinical trials …
EP Scully, G Schumock, M Fu, E Klein, SL Klein… - Topics in Antiviral Medicine, 2021
Background: Males have increased rates of severe illness and mortality from SARS-
CoV2 compared to females. It is unknown whether this is due to differential care
seeking, health status, illness presentation, comorbidities, and/or treatment
- This is on careers (not research) but is a good summary article.
Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions Links to an external site.
A Llorens, A Tzovara, L Bellier, I Bhaya-Grossman… - Neuron, 2021
Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain. A major source of inequity is gender bias, which has a substantial negative impact on the careers, work-life balance, and mental health of underrepresented groups in science. Here, we argue that gender bias is not a single problem but manifests as a collection of distinct issues that impact researchers’ lives. We disentangle these facets and propose concrete solutions that can be adopted by individuals, academic institutions, and society.
- This is still in preprint: Generating Gender Augmented Data for NLP Links to an external site.
N Jain, M Popovic, D Groves, E Vanmassenhove - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05987, 2021
… Observed bias problems range from copying biases already existing in data to claims
that the training process can lead to an exacerbation or amplification of observed bi-
ases
- Adamus, M., Čavojová, V. and Šrol, J. (2021), "The impact of stereotyped perceptions of entrepreneurship and gender-role orientation on Slovak women’s entrepreneurial intentions", Gender in Management, Vol. 36 No. 6, pp. 745-761. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-06-2020-0179 Links to an external site..
- This is climate change—I can’t tell you how excited I am. I hope this can pass quickly. On 14 July, the European Commission presented a comprehensive package of 13 legislative proposals. These proposals seek to meet the targets enshrined in the Climate Law, which mandates a reduction of emissions (from 1990 levels) of at least 55% by 2030 – and climate neutrality by 2050. This landmark package, known as “Fit for 55”, encompasses changes to the energy system, low-carbon innovation and the transformation of the manufacturing industry, measures to promote more sustainable transport and the phasing out of the conventional car, as well as policies to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The package represents not only a comprehensive overhaul of the many policies that have been put in place over the last two decades, but includes two significant new elements: the creation of a climate social fund and the establishment of a carbon border adjustment mechanism. With these measures the European Commission proposes to make the Green Deal a reality.
- Publishers let authors correct their names Links to an external site.. In an effort to expand inclusivity for transgender researchers, publishers, including Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, have adopted policies that allow rapid and discreet author name changes to be made on digital editions of published works Links to an external site.. “This was a safety issue, a personal-equity issue and a labour issue,” says informatics researcher Theresa Jean Tanenbaum. Search engines and other indexes might need time to reflect the change, and PDF documents can complicate the issue when they are considered the historical article of record