Adressing sex and gender in research projects

Understanding sex-related variation in health and illness requires rigorous and precise approaches to revealing underlying mechanisms. A first step is to recognize that sex is not in and of itself a causal mechanism; rather, it is a classification system comprising a set of categories, usually assigned according to a range of varying traits. Moving beyond sex as a system of classification to working with concrete and measurable sex-related variables is necessary for precision. Whether and how these sex-related variables matter—and what patterns of difference they contribute to—will vary in context-specific ways.

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A checklist for Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) into the design of new research projects

Guide for authors by Elsevier.

Londa Schiebinger explains why studies that ignore these factors are flawed.

This paper reports on 1) 12 state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis for science, health and medicine, engineering, and environmental research; and 2) and 25 case studies to illustrate how gender analysis leads to discovery.

In recent years prominent UK and US leaders in science and medicine have called for the end of all-male speaking panels, or “manels”, and focused admirably on the issue of participation in science. Arguably more important than who does the research, however, is how the research is conducted. Are crucial variables missing? Are basic theoretical frameworks ignoring key components? We posit that it's time to end science in which mankind represents all humankind. It's also time to integrate how sex and gender interact into basic and applied research.

A guideline for sex, gender and diversity in research projects providing guiding questions, examples and references to literature for research activities.

We draw attention to four key principles—overlap, mosaicism, contingency and entanglement—that have emerged from sex/gender research and that should inform NI research design, analysis and interpretation.

A Handbook for Researchers in Technology and Natural Sciences

This article describes the rationale for an international set of guidelines to encourage a more systematic approach to the reporting of sex and gender in research across disciplines. The Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines are a comprehensive procedure for reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analyses, results and interpretation of findings. The SAGER guidelines are designed primarily to guide authors in preparing their manuscripts, but they are also useful for editors, as gatekeepers of science, to integrate assessment of sex and gender into all manuscripts as an integral part of the editorial process.

Biomedical - Clinical - Population Health

This Viewpoint offers guidance for how to report sex and gender characteristics of study participants in medical research articles.

Integrating sex and gender into biomedical and health research leads to more effective and impactful research. Join the Center for Women’s Health, Sex, and G...