NIH COMMIT Challenge: Opening Fall 2026 The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) is launching the COMpetency in Menopause & Integrated Therapy (COMMIT) Challenge, national prize competition with a $2.5 million prize purse designed to identify and reward exemplary menopause‑related curricula across U.S. health education and professional training programs.  Learn more and explore full challenge details: https://www.nih.gov/challenges/competency-menopause-integrated-therapy-commit-challeng

Advancing Gender Equality in Research Organisations: Key Factors for Success
J Müller, R Palmén - 2026
Advancing Gender Equality in Research Organisations: Key Factors for Success
examines how organisational gender equality can be effectively designed,
implemented, and evaluated in European universities and research institutions …
Developmental and dynamic systems: insights for sex/gender research
G Grossi, A Duchesne, DL Maney
Biology of Sex Differences, 2026•Springer
Recent work incorporating gender into sex differences research has complicated the interpretation of both physiological and behavioral differences between women and men, which are traditionally interpreted as driven by “biological” sex-related variables. Alternative conceptualizations have been proposed to capture the complex relationship between sex and gender, such as sex/gender entanglement. Blurring the boundaries between gender and sex, the organism and its environments, this perspective has create
Autoimmune Disease as an Emerging CVD Risk Factor
A Naghipour, S Oertelt-Prigione - Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Health and …, 2026
Autoimmune diseases are increasingly recognized as significant cardiovascular risk
factors. This chapter focuses on underlying pathophysiological mechanisms with
special attention to the impact of sex. Drawing on current evidence concerning …
Claims of sex-dependent effects in the behavioral and brain sciences are infrequently supported by valid statistical comparisons
MT Olivier, AW Brown, S Chung, CJ Vorland… - Proceedings of the National …, 2026Interest in precision medicine has accelerated efforts to identify sex-dependent
responses to treatments and interventions. Those efforts have, both historically and
today, been concentrated in fields related to the brain and behavior. Here, we show …

Sex differences in the pharmacokinetics of anticancer drugs: a systematic
J Delahousse, AD Wagner, S Borchmann, AA Adjei…

Background: In addition to the effect of body weight, a patient's sex can influence the
pharmacokinetics (PK) of anticancer agents, and thereby their activity and safety. The
magnitude and relevance of sex differences, however, are currently unclear …

Sex differences in the gut microbiome and related metabolites: role in cardiometabolic disease
Y Wang, E Cheng, BA Peters-Samuelson - Gut Microbes, 2026

Sex differences in major cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), such as type 2 diabetes,
metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, and cardiovascular disease,
have been increasingly recognized across the life course. During the reproductive …

Barriers and Facilitators to the Inclusion of Sex-and Gender-Based Analyses in Neurodegeneration in Aging Research
P Wu, LAM Galea, G Einstein, Z Goodarzi - Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Background: The effects of sex and gender in health research are important but not
well 23 incorporated, leading to poor understanding of possible disease
mechanisms and 24 underdevelopment of appropriate interventions. Canadian …

Developing Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems for Recruitment and Hiring Processes in Abia State, Nigeria
NP Essien, NA Chijioke, SC Chibuike, CK Akoma

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the development of ethical
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for recruitment and hiring processes in Abia State,
Nigeria. Two specific objectives were identified, two research questions were raised …

Historical Stereotype Change is Tied to the Entry and Exit of Distributed Group Concepts
S Wang, J Jackson, X Bai

Stereotype change is usually characterized using broad dimensions such as warmth
and competence. We argue that these evaluative stereotypes rest on a richer web of
group-related associations that we call distributional stereotypes. Using decade-specific …

Revisiting How We Access Historical Archives: Auditing Gender Stereotypes and the Division of Labour in the Analysis of Historical Photography Collections
F Net, A Molina, S Llacer-Caro, L Gomez - International Conference on Document …, 2026

Multimodal encoders such as CLIP are increasingly used to search and organize
historical photographic collections in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM).
However, web-scale pretraining introduces social biases into these models that …

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