Two news items from our friends at the European Commission:

1. Gender equality could add up to €3.15 trillion to EU GDP by 2050: EIT Community Supernovas' new handbook shows exactly how organisations can make gender-smart innovation happen. → Access the report 
2. What does it take to move beyond "gender blindness" in research? A new guide from Vives Network of Universities offers researchers, educators and managers a practical roadmap. This publication provides the necessary resources to overcome “gender blindness” and enhance the social impact of knowledge.  → Read the full report here.

 The Context Dependency of Demographic Bias in LLM Annotation

MA Brown, S Atreja, L Hemphill, PY Wu - The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2026

 Navigating menopausal care: a scoping review of health system responsiveness and gaps

A Kalbarczyk, LH Baker, YJ Na, M Syed, MB Lagos… - The Lancet Obstetrics …, 2026

Menopause is a major life transition affecting millions of people globally, yet health
systems often fail to provide responsive, coordinated care. This scoping review
synthesises evidence from 89 studies across diverse populations and geographies …

 Implementing Sex-and Gender-Sensitive Medical Teaching: Applying a Structural Stage Model for Curriculum Development

L Wortmann, S Oertelt-Prigione - Sex-and Gender-Specific Biomedicine, 2026

Sex-and gender-sensitive medicine (SGSM) remains insufficiently integrated into
medical education, highlighting the need for both subject-specific content and
structural embedding across curricula. This article offers a pragmatic approach for …

 Gonadal steroids as predictors of sex differences in tuberculosis outcomes

D Dabitao, B Baya, I Sanogo, A Somboro, M Wague… - JCI insight, 2026

Recent evidence suggests a role for biological factors to explain increased risk for
active pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) among men. We conducted a prospective
cohort study in Mali of treatment naive males and females with laboratory-confirmed …

 The Gender Perspective and Gender Analysis

M López-Atanes, I Escajadillo, L Erkoreka - … the Gender Perspective in Psychiatry and …, 2026

Gender is a key determinant of mental health, shaping identity, social roles,
exposure to stressors, symptom expression, and access to care. This chapter
examines the concepts of the gender perspective and gender analysis and their …

 Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy

T Ojeda, M Pape, DM Grijseels, EL Caselles, S Bekker… - IJFAB: International Journal …, 2026

 Technical consultation on gender mainstreaming in vector control product regulation: meeting report, 23-25 September 2025

World Health Organization - 2026

This meeting report summarizes the proceedings and recommendations of a WHO
technical consultation on gender mainstreaming in vector control product regulation,
held from 23 to 25 September 2025. The consultation examined how sex and …

 What do we mean by “women's health”? Gendered terminology and patient communication in pharmacy practice

EE Pauling - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association

Pharmacists increasingly provide services related to reproductive and sexual health
to diverse patient populations whose health needs may not align with traditional
gendered terminology. For example, the term "women's health" is widely used in …

 Gender Equality in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Implementation in Southeast Asian Universities

MBD Cruz, NA binti Hassan, P Thongnopnua - … Journal of Society, Culture and Human …, 2026

Gender disparities in higher education persist across Southeast Asia despite formal
policy commitments to gender equality. This study examines the implementation of
gender equality policies in twelve universities (four each in the Philippines, Malaysia …

 From awareness to action: a three-phase model for gender-sensitive STEM teaching

C Striebing, H Bertram, J Büssers, C Clausnitzer… - Humanities and Social …, 2026

Gender bias compromises both technical robustness and social equity in
engineering, yet systematic training in recognising and mitigating such bias remains
rare in STEM curricula. This study proposes the SEE framework (Sensitising …

 Human Milk for Cancer Care: Science-in-Extension and Gendered Digital Labor

R Harari, A Oreg, A Herbst-Debby - Social Science & Medicine, 2026

AbstractThis qualitative case study examines how human milk is framed, negotiated,
and justified as a therapeutic resource for adults with cancer within a large digital
peer-to-peer human milk-sharing community. Drawing on discourse analysis of …

 Binary labels, binary stories: Sex and the white-throated sparrow

DL Maney - 2026

Debates about whether sex is binary often conflate gamete size, which is
unambiguously binary, with the development of sex-related traits, which is not. Most
sex-related behaviors, morphologies, and physiological processes arise from …

For the volume of which this is part, see:  Eschewing the Binary: Sex and Gender Science in Human and Non-human Animal Research

 Biology of Sex Differences: https://link.springer.com/collections/jjdecgiibh