Excellence in research requires careful attention to sex and gender analysis. The Gendered Innova... more Excellence in research requires careful attention to sex and gender analysis. The Gendered Innovations project, initiated in 2009, develops state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis for basic and applied research.
Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades, reaching ... more Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades, reaching approximately a quarter of a trillion US dollars in 2010. However, not all of this investment is distributed evenly by gender. It follows, arguably, that scarce research resources may not be optimally invested (by either not supporting the best science or by failing to investigate topics that benefit women and men equitably). Women across the world tend to be significantly underrepresented in research both as researchers and research participants, receive less research funding, and appear less frequently than men as authors on research publications. There is also some evidence that women are relatively disadvantaged as the beneficiaries of research, in terms of its health, societal and economic impacts. Historical gender biases may have created a path dependency that means that the research system and the impacts of research are biased towards male researchers and male beneficiaries, making it inherently difficult (though not impossible) to eliminate gender bias. In this commentary, we – a group of scholars and practitioners from Africa, America, Asia and Europe – argue that gender-sensitive research impact assessment could become a force for good in moving science policy and practice towards gender equity. Research impact assessment is the multidisciplinary field of scientific inquiry that examines the research process to maximise scientific, societal and economic returns on investment in research. It encompasses many theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used to investigate gender bias and recommend actions for change to maximise research impact. We offer a set of recommendations to research funders, research institutions and research evaluators who conduct impact assessment on how to include and strengthen analysis of gender equity in research impact assessment and issue a global call for action.
Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1997
Osteoporosis has become a priority issue in health care in the 1990s. Public awareness of the con... more Osteoporosis has become a priority issue in health care in the 1990s. Public awareness of the condition is raised and preventive strategies for women are promoted. Through an analysis informed by gender and science studies of scientific texts and information ...
... The review demon-strated that biological sex factors play a role in fetal lung development. .... more ... The review demon-strated that biological sex factors play a role in fetal lung development. ... 27. Fausto-Sterling A: Sexing the body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality. ... Kuhlmann E, Babitsch B: Bodies, health, genderbridging feminist theories and women's health. ...
The reported research was conceived as a pilot study to explore the views of women on the implica... more The reported research was conceived as a pilot study to explore the views of women on the implications of the analysis of the human genome. The data were gathered by interview and questionnaire from a group of Dutch women, most likely to have an informed opinion. However, even women who were assumed to be informed express a serious lack of knowledge. Nevertheless, they mention a whole range of problematic issues. Overall, women are likely to think that gene technology does affect them differently than it does men. They draw attention to the social reality of women's lives, mentioning the greater responsibility of mothers for the embryo and childbirth and pointing to the fact that women are subjected to more complicated and painful examinations. In the public debate attention for gender implications of gene technology is lacking. A plea is made to improve the quality of the debate by integrating sex and gender specific issues.
This article describes how methodologies of EU-funded research within the life sciences and biome... more This article describes how methodologies of EU-funded research within the life sciences and biomedicine have recently become more gender sensitive. This transformation is the result of the Gender Impact Assessments of the EU Fifth Framework Programme, commissioned in 2000-1. The authors assessed the research programme for life sciences, which includes a large health-related component. The new guidelines for research emphasize the need for clear terminology for concepts of sex and gender and for a distinction to be made between the two, for both life sciences and health research. Attention to possible sex differences, even in preclinical research, as well as to effects of gender, will lead to more adequate research data that serve the health of both men and women. The transformation to research becoming more gender-sensitive is further discussed in the context of feminist theory on the body. Being fully aware of the fact that what is happening in bodies is mediated by particular technologies, the authors make an appeal to invest in concepts that take the living and changing body into account.
... A Study for the European Commission by Ineke Klinge (Faculty of Health Sciences) and MinekeBo... more ... A Study for the European Commission by Ineke Klinge (Faculty of Health Sciences) and MinekeBosch (Centre for Gender and Diversity), Maastricht University, July 2001 Page 2. ... Mineke Bosch PO Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht [email protected] Authors: ...
Excellence in research requires careful attention to sex and gender analysis. The Gendered Innova... more Excellence in research requires careful attention to sex and gender analysis. The Gendered Innovations project, initiated in 2009, develops state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis for basic and applied research.
Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades, reaching ... more Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades, reaching approximately a quarter of a trillion US dollars in 2010. However, not all of this investment is distributed evenly by gender. It follows, arguably, that scarce research resources may not be optimally invested (by either not supporting the best science or by failing to investigate topics that benefit women and men equitably). Women across the world tend to be significantly underrepresented in research both as researchers and research participants, receive less research funding, and appear less frequently than men as authors on research publications. There is also some evidence that women are relatively disadvantaged as the beneficiaries of research, in terms of its health, societal and economic impacts. Historical gender biases may have created a path dependency that means that the research system and the impacts of research are biased towards male researchers and male beneficiaries, making it inherently difficult (though not impossible) to eliminate gender bias. In this commentary, we – a group of scholars and practitioners from Africa, America, Asia and Europe – argue that gender-sensitive research impact assessment could become a force for good in moving science policy and practice towards gender equity. Research impact assessment is the multidisciplinary field of scientific inquiry that examines the research process to maximise scientific, societal and economic returns on investment in research. It encompasses many theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used to investigate gender bias and recommend actions for change to maximise research impact. We offer a set of recommendations to research funders, research institutions and research evaluators who conduct impact assessment on how to include and strengthen analysis of gender equity in research impact assessment and issue a global call for action.
Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1997
Osteoporosis has become a priority issue in health care in the 1990s. Public awareness of the con... more Osteoporosis has become a priority issue in health care in the 1990s. Public awareness of the condition is raised and preventive strategies for women are promoted. Through an analysis informed by gender and science studies of scientific texts and information ...
... The review demon-strated that biological sex factors play a role in fetal lung development. .... more ... The review demon-strated that biological sex factors play a role in fetal lung development. ... 27. Fausto-Sterling A: Sexing the body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality. ... Kuhlmann E, Babitsch B: Bodies, health, genderbridging feminist theories and women's health. ...
The reported research was conceived as a pilot study to explore the views of women on the implica... more The reported research was conceived as a pilot study to explore the views of women on the implications of the analysis of the human genome. The data were gathered by interview and questionnaire from a group of Dutch women, most likely to have an informed opinion. However, even women who were assumed to be informed express a serious lack of knowledge. Nevertheless, they mention a whole range of problematic issues. Overall, women are likely to think that gene technology does affect them differently than it does men. They draw attention to the social reality of women's lives, mentioning the greater responsibility of mothers for the embryo and childbirth and pointing to the fact that women are subjected to more complicated and painful examinations. In the public debate attention for gender implications of gene technology is lacking. A plea is made to improve the quality of the debate by integrating sex and gender specific issues.
This article describes how methodologies of EU-funded research within the life sciences and biome... more This article describes how methodologies of EU-funded research within the life sciences and biomedicine have recently become more gender sensitive. This transformation is the result of the Gender Impact Assessments of the EU Fifth Framework Programme, commissioned in 2000-1. The authors assessed the research programme for life sciences, which includes a large health-related component. The new guidelines for research emphasize the need for clear terminology for concepts of sex and gender and for a distinction to be made between the two, for both life sciences and health research. Attention to possible sex differences, even in preclinical research, as well as to effects of gender, will lead to more adequate research data that serve the health of both men and women. The transformation to research becoming more gender-sensitive is further discussed in the context of feminist theory on the body. Being fully aware of the fact that what is happening in bodies is mediated by particular technologies, the authors make an appeal to invest in concepts that take the living and changing body into account.
... A Study for the European Commission by Ineke Klinge (Faculty of Health Sciences) and MinekeBo... more ... A Study for the European Commission by Ineke Klinge (Faculty of Health Sciences) and MinekeBosch (Centre for Gender and Diversity), Maastricht University, July 2001 Page 2. ... Mineke Bosch PO Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht [email protected] Authors: ...
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