A multifaceted approach to global health
L Schiebinger, BE Turner, R Laxminarayan, J Fanzo… - Med, 2024
World Health Day underscores the scientific community's commitment to achieving
health equity for all. It is paramount to eliminate bias in research that has traditionally
focused on men, neglecting the specific needs of diverse populations. Innovative …

Impression management in sex and gender neuroscience research reporting: the MAGIC guidelines
Gina Rippon, Katy Losse & Simon White  Nature Communications volume 15, Article number: 2826 (2024) 
Research into sex and gender-based differences in the brain is of key importance in many arenas. As findings will be scrutinised
by both specialists and non-specialists, problems of miscommunication may arise. Guidelines to identify and avoid such problems are proposed.

From means to meaning in the study of sex/gender differences and similarities
C Sanchis-Segura, RR Wilcox - Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 2024 - Elsevie.
The incorporation of sex and gender (S/G) related factors is commonly acknowledged as a 
necessary step to advance towards more personalized diagnoses and treatments for
somatic, psychiatric, and neurological diseases. Until now, most attempts to integrate S/G-
related factors have been reduced to identifying average differences between females and
males in behavioral/biological variables. The present commentary questions this traditional
approach by highlighting three main sets of limitations: 1) Issues stemming from the use of 

GeniL: A Multilingual Dataset on Generalizing Language
AM Davani, S Gubbi, S Dev, S Dave, V Prabhakaran - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024
LLMs are increasingly transforming our digital ecosystem, but they often inherit
societal biases learned from their training data, for instance stereotypes associating
certain attributes with specific identity groups. While whether and how these biases …

Designing Robots to Help Women
M Cooney, L Klasén, F Alonso-Fernandez - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04123, 2024
Robots are being designed to help people in an increasing variety of settings--but
seemingly little attention has been given so far to the specific needs of women, who
represent roughly half of the world's population but are highly underrepresented in…

A review of the institutional landscape for dual-career hiring in higher education
T Monahan, M Waltz, A Parker, JA Fisher - Discover Education, 2024
Meeting the needs of dual-career academic couples has become an important part
of university efforts to foster family-friendly workplaces. Many universities have
developed formal or informal approaches to addressing dual-career issues, but 

 Disentangling sex differences in PTSD risk factors
S Haering, AV Seligowski, SD Linnstaedt… - Nature Mental Health, 2024
Despite extensive research on sex/gender differences in posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), underlying mechanisms are still not fully understood. Here we
present a systematic overview of three sex/gender-related risk pathways. We …

Higher risk—less data: A systematic review and meta-analysis on the role of sex and gender in trauma research.
S Haering, L Schulze, A Geiling, C Meyer, H Klusmann… - Journal of Psychopathology …, 2024
Women and men are at different risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is
unclear, however, how studies on PTSD risk factors integrate this knowledge into
their research. Moreover, the temporal development of women’s higher PTSD risk is …

Resource recovery from soiled sanitary napkin waste—a state-of-the-art review
MSA Hameed, SP Sreedharan, P Sivapragasam… - Environmental Science and …, 2024
With ever-improving social and medical awareness about menstrual hygiene in India,
the demand for sanitary napkins has increased significantly. The utilization of high-quality
and environment-friendly raw materials to produce these pads is further supporting …

Objective metrics for ethical AI: a systematic literature review

G Palumbo, D Carneiro, V Alves - International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2024
The field of AI Ethics has recently gained considerable attention, yet much of the
existing academic research lacks practical and objective contributions for the
development of ethical AI systems. This systematic literature review aims to identify …

All best, Londa

Professor Londa Schiebinger
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/schiebinger.html
Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu
Stanford University