The Centre for Sex & Gender Equity in Health & Medicine invites you to join the webinar launch of our new white paper, Closing the Gender Health Gap: The Investment Case and Capturing Australia’s Window of Opportunity. Read the white paper here. Event Details (Australia):

• Date: Tuesday 25^th August
• Time: 1:00pm – 2:15pm
• Location: Online via Teams, please register below for meeting link
  

Register here: Link to register 
Beyond the hype of AI as a panacea for women's health, 
Nature Perspectives. Here, we argue that systemic harms can arise when AI is uncritically embraced as a revolution for women's health.
Gender-responsive infectious disease models: Guidelines and systematic scoping review
A Hamilton, I Prihartono, Y Okura, N Rankin, S Saiyed… - Dialogues in Health, 2026
Background Sex and gender influence infectious disease outcomes through
biological and social mechanisms. Gender norms, roles, and behaviors affect
exposure, care-seeking, and service access, yet most infectious disease models …
Physiological markers in females and males after multiple bouts of caloric deprivation during arduous military training
SJ Goldenstein, TE Oliver, JA Gwin, KJ Heaton, GEW Giersch, JP McClung…
Journal of Applied Physiology, 2026•journals.physiology.org
The US Army Ranger Training Course (RTC) is a multistressor environment including cognitive and physical stress coupled with repeated sleep and energy deficits over 61+ days. Previous investigations of physiological responses to
RTC operational stressors were conducted exclusively in males, leaving female responses uncharacterized. Therefore, this study aimed to identify changes in metabolic, growth, and sex hormones, inflammatory, and iron markers in males
and females undergoing RTC. Blood samples

Do we see robots as male? Children's and adults' gender perceptions of robots
M Okanda, K Taniguchi - Cognitive Development, 2026
The present study investigated the tendency of children aged 3-7 years and adults to
assign gender to robots. In Study 1, we examined whether they would label robots
and toys—including two humanoid robots and dolls, a doglike robot and a stuffed …

Gendered Pathways to Work–Family Balance and Their Consequences: Insights from Dual‐Career Faculty Couples
KN Kim, S Jeong - Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2026
This study examines gendered work–family balance (WFB) experiences among dual‐career
academic couples at US research‐intensive universities. By comparing faculty
couples who shared the same or similar professional and family contexts, the study …

Is ChatGPT Gender-Neutral? Implicit Stereotyping Persists Over Time and With Experience
M Steeds, K Seaborn, T Fujii, O Cooney, I Gessinger - … of the 8th ACM Conference on …, 2026
ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM), is used by millions
globally. Whether it is perceived as an anthropomorphic agent is currently being
mapped out. Notably, the degree and nature of how ChatGPT is gendered remains …

The Extent Of Gender/Sex Variables Included In Clinical Algorithms Across Medical Specialties: The article examines gender/sex variable in clinical algorithms
SH Davis, AC Danielsen, IYF Hsiao, KK Albert… - Health Affairs, 2026
Gender/sex variables are often included in clinical algorithms, typically without
articulating which aspects of gender or sex-linked biologies are hypothesized to
contribute to the tools' output. To date, there exists little systematic evaluation of how …

Inheritance of chromosomes, sex determination, and the human genome: A new paradigm
NK Shetty
Gender and the Genome, 2018•journals.sagepub.com
Who is the determining factor for the sex of the offspring—mother, father, or both parents? This fundamental hypothesis proposes a new model of sex determination, challenging the existing dogma that the male Y chromosome of the
father is the sole determinant of the sex of the offspring. According to modern science, the 3 X chromosomes (male XY and female XX) are assumed to be similar, and the sex of the offspring is determined after the zygote is formed. In
contrast to this, the new hypothesis based on theoretical research

 All best wishes,
Londa Schiebinger
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science
https://hps.stanford.edu/people/londa-schiebinger
Director, Gendered Innovations in Science,
Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
https://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/
Stanford University