From: "Londa Schiebinger" <schieb@stanford.edu>
To: "genderedinnovations@lists.stanford.edu" <genderedinnovations@lists.stanford.edu>;
Sent: 2023-04-26 (수) 00:51:25 (UTC+09:00)
Subject: [Gendered Innovations] Lots of exciting thing today
I don’t find everything—so, please send me your research, if relevant.
Health and Biomedicine
1. An important article from NIH ORWH
E Barr, R Popkin, E Roodzant… - Translational …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gender is a social and structural variable that encompasses multiple domains, each of
which influences health: gender identity and expression, gender roles and norms, gendered
power relations, and gender equality and equity. As such, gender has far-reaching impacts
on health. Additional research is needed to continue delineating and untangling the effects
of gender from the effects of sex and other biological variables. The National Institutes of
Health (NIH) vision for women's health is a world in which the influence of sex and/or gender
2. NIH ORWH invites you to review two sex, gender, and intersectionality resources for your use:
ORWH’s new Sex and Gender in Health and Disease webpage to help better explain and address how sex and gender influence disparities and health outcomes.
“Putting Evidence into Practice: An Update on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Methods for Developing Recommendations for Preventive Services,” which summarizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s methods, describes how methods are evolving to address preventive health equity, and defines evidence gaps for future research.
3. And out of Berlin:
Diversified innovations in the health sciences: Proposal for a Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS)
G Stadler, M Chesaniuk, S Haering, J Roseman… - Sustainable Chemistry and …, 2023
Background Science strives to provide high-quality evidence for all members of
society, but there continues to be a considerable gender and diversity data gap, ie, a
systematic lack of data for traditionally underrepresented groups. Gender and other …
4. From our friends in Valencia:
A deep transcriptome meta-analysis reveals sex differences in multiple sclerosis
JF Català-Senent, Z Andreu, MR Hidalgo… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic auto-immune, inflammatory, and
degenerative disease of the central nervous system, affects both males and females;
however, females suffer from a higher risk of developing MS (2–3: 1 ratio relative to males).
The precise sex-based factors influencing risk of MS are currently unknown. Here, we
explore the role of sex in MS to identify molecular mechanisms underlying observed MS sex
differences that may guide novel therapeutic approaches tailored for males or females …
A López-Cerdán, Z Andreu, MR Hidalgo… - Biology of Sex …, 2022 - Springer
Background In recent decades, increasing longevity (among other factors) has fostered a
rise in Parkinson's disease incidence. Although not exhaustively studied in this devastating
disease, the impact of sex represents a critical variable in Parkinson's disease as
epidemiological and clinical features differ between males and females. Methods To study
sex bias in Parkinson's disease, we conducted a systematic review to select sex-labeled
transcriptomic data from three relevant brain tissues: the frontal cortex, the striatum, and the …
6. The sweet side of sex as a biological variable
CD Hunter, KM Morris, T Derksen, LM Willis - Glycobiology, 2023
Glycobiology as a field holds enormous potential for understanding human health
and disease. However, few glycobiology studies adequately address the issue of
sex differences in biology, which severely limits the conclusions that can be drawn …
Y Daralammouri, M Jabri, O Mosleh, Y AbdelAziz… - Palestinian Medical and …, 2023
Several studies have shown gender variations in acute coronary syndrome's clinical
presentation, diagnosis, therapy, and outcomes. Both immediate and long-term
outcomes were worse for women with the acute coronary syndrome than men. This …
JA Pinkney, LM Bogart, KN Carroll, L Bryan, G Witter… - Open Forum Infectious …, 2023
Background Despite high rates of COVID-19-related maternal mortality, Jamaica
currently has little data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among pregnant women. Study
Design We conducted a cross-sectional, web-based survey of 192 reproductive-aged …
Robotics
1. This paper won best paper at the HRI conference:
K Winkle, D McMillan, M Arnelid, K Harrison… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is inherently a human-centric field of technology. The role of
feminist theories in related fields (eg Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science) are taken
as a starting point to present a vision for Feminist HRI which can support better, more ethical
HRI practice everyday, as well as a more activist research and design stance. We first define
feminist design for an HRI audience and use a set of feminist principles from neighboring
fields to examine existent HRI literature, showing the progress that has been made already …
2. Face to Face with a Sexist Robot
D Garcha, D Geiskkovitch, R Thiessen, S Prentice…
Social robots are often created with gender in mind, for example by giving them a
designed gender identity or including elements of gender in their behaviors.
However, even if unintentional, such social robot designs may have strong gender …
Y Prinzellner, N Sturm, C Geyer, G Salomon, A Weiss…
Social robots are often envisioned as companions for older adults and chronically ill
people to support them in everyday life (taking medication, staying physically active,
etc.). For all these tasks a high-level of personalization is required, in order to …
NLP/LLMs
1. Transcending the “Male Code”: Implicit Masculine Biases in NLP Contexts
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581017
2. Interacting with masculinities: A scoping review
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3585770
3. “I'm” Lost in Translation: Pronoun Missteps in Crowdsourced Data Sets
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3585667
4. Toxicity in ChatGPT: Analyzing Persona-assigned Language Models
A Deshpande, V Murahari, T Rajpurohit, A Kalyan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023
Large language models (LLMs) have shown incredible capabilities and transcended
the natural language processing (NLP) community, with adoption throughout many
services like healthcare, therapy, education, and customer service. Since users …
5. Should ChatGPT be Biased? Challenges and Risks of Bias in Large Language Models
E Ferrara - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.03738, 2023
As the capabilities of generative language models continue to advance, the
implications of biases ingrained within these models have garnered increasing
attention from researchers, practitioners, and the broader public. This article …
LA Alemany, L Benotti, H Maina, L González…
Automated decision-making systems, specially those based on natural language
processing, are pervasive in our lives. They are not only behind the internet search
engines we use daily, but also take more critical roles: selecting candidates for a job …
Music
1. Quantifying cultural change: Gender bias in music.
R Boghrati, J Berger - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2023
Cultural items (eg, songs, books, and movies) have an important impact in creating
and reinforcing stereotypes. But the actual nature of such items is often less
transparent. Take songs, for example. Are lyrics biased against women, and how …
Materials and Sustainability
1. Agave Sisalana for distributed production of absorbent media for menstrual pads in semi-arid regions
A Molina, A Kothari, A Odundo, M Prakash - 2023
Agaves are robust, draught tolerant plants that have been cultivated for their high-strength
fibers for centuries and they hold great promise as a crop in the face of increasing
water scarcity associated with a warming planet. Meanwhile, millions of women lack
All best, Londa
Londa Schiebinger
Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project
http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/schiebinger.html
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