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From: "Londa Schiebinger" <schieb@stanford.edu>
To: "genderedinnovations@lists.stanford.edu" <genderedinnovations@lists.stanford.edu>;
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Sent: 2025-10-19 (일) 02:33:44 (UTC+09:00)
Subject: [Gendered Innovations] More research of interest!

GI Method, Intersectional Approaches has been updated: https://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/methods/intersect.html  If may be of use to you.

 

Plastic Additives in Single-Use and Reusable Menstrual Products: Potential Implications for Human Health and the Environment

L Cioni, J Calvo, E Eljarrat - Environmental Science & Technology, 2025

Menstrual products are essential for half of the world’s population during
menstruation, but recent studies have found that these products can contain
chemicals of concern for human health. The present study detected three classes of …

 

What is the link between the menstrual cycle and Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries? A narrative review

M Pape - 2025

Résumé According to recent studies, women athletes are at greater risk for anterior
cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. Several avenues have been explored to explain this
disparity, with the menstrual cycle emerging as a particularly debated factor. In this …

 

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models

D Guilbeault, S Delecourt, BS Desikan - Nature, 2025

Are widespread stereotypes accurate 1, 2, 3 or socially distorted 4, 5, 6? This
continuing debate is limited by the lack of large-scale multimodal data on
stereotypical associations and the inability to compare these to ground truth …

 

Explaining Resistance to Algorithmic Bias: The Impact of Feminist Consciousness and AI Literacy on Protest Participation in South Korea

JI Jo - Asian Women, 2025

As algorithmic systems increasingly mediate public life, understanding how
individuals respond to algorithmic biases and discrimination has become a pressing
concern. This study investigates two distinct yet interrelated reactions: algorithm …

 

Women in Technology-Questions for Austrian Women's Policy

B Ratzer - Equality in progress: From positive action to diversity …

… In the words of Londa Schiebinger, the agenda can be succinctly summarised as
follows:“Fix the (number of) women, Fix the institutions, Fix the knowledge”(Schiebinger,
2008). Along these lines, TU Wien has been working on equal opportunities for …

 

The Digital Mirror: Gender Bias and Occupational Stereotypes in AI-Generated Images

S Leppälampi, SM Hyrynsalmi, E Vanhala - arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08628, 2025

… To make applications and research responsive to a broader and diverse user
base, a study by Schiebinger and Klinge [28] advocates for gender analysis to …
Schiebinger, I. Klinge, Gendered Innovations: How Gender Analysis Contributes to …

 

Quantifying Gender Stereotypes in Japan between 1900 and 1999 with Word Embeddings

S Sakai, H Kwak, J An, A Matsui - arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03905, 2025

We quantify the evolution of gender stereotypes in Japan from 1900 to 1999 using a
series of 100 word embeddings, each trained on a corpus from a specific year. We
define the gender stereotype value to measure the strength of a word's gender …

 

Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research

M Boulicault, A Gompers, L Aalami, AC Danielsen… - Biology of Sex Differences, 2025

To explain observed disparities in health outcomes between men and women, sex
essentialist approaches assign causal primacy to sex-related biology. In this essay,
we present three case studies to illustrate how sex essentialism can distort human …





 

Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine

M Boulicault, K Ichikawa, A Thinius, M DiMarco… - Big Data and Society, 2025

Abstract Machine learning offers new possibilities for developing more precise
diagnostics and treatments, but the increasing use of sex stratification in precision
medicine algorithms raises concerns. Using Alzheimer's disease (AD) research as …

 

Sex differences in stress response in the marine copepod, Calanus finmarchicus

SEJ Rousseau, W Ameur, E Thiebaut, T Abdelaziz… - American Journal of …, 2025

As climate change intensifies, marine organisms face multiple environmental
stressors that challenge their survival and adaptability. Oxidative stress occurs when
environmental conditions deviate far from an organism’s optimal range, and …

 

Designing clinical practice guidelines for equitable, inclusive, and contextualised care

A Naghipour, E Becher, M Gemander… - bmj, 2025

Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and colleagues argue that European clinical practice guidelines need standardised, inclusive, sex and gender sensitive development to not only guide healthcare but also drive innovation and research agendas

 

Navigating Gender Disparities on the Management of Chronic Disease: A Narrative

VN Priya, S Pandey

Chronic diseases globally expose significant gender disparities in management and
outcomes. Women often experience delays and inadequate treatment due to
biological, psychosocial, and systemic biases, compounded by societal norms …

 

The Co-Creation of Evoking Change Talk: A Method for Shifting Workplace Culture

E Sellin, N Marsden - INFORMATIK 2025, 2025

… The aim is to implement the fourth fix of the EU-Project GILL, which builds on
Schiebinger’s Gendered Innovation fixes: In addition to the fixes Schiebinger has
identified as classic fields for gender equality work, this fourth fix is about focusing …

 

Gender, engineering, and innovation in South Korea: an empirical investigation of the industrial patriarchy of the Southeastern region

S Yang, SY Kim - Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2025

This study examines the role of gender in the industrial development and innovation
of South Korea’s Southeastern heavy manufacturing clusters through the concept of ‘industrial
patriarchy.’ The term denotes institutional practices and norms historically rooted in …

 

Women in Science, Part 1: Achievements, Barriers, Opportunities

S Sutherland, A Link - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 2025

… As Londa Schiebinger reminds us in The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the
Origins of Modern Science (1989), women's access to scientific … As Londa
Schiebinger notes, across one lifetime, the scientific "landscape was a varied one …

 

Dimensions of psychological essentialism and attitudes toward sexual diversity.

JJ Santos, SM van Anders, E Cerqueira-Santos - Psychology of Sexual Orientation …, 2025

Essentialist thinking is commonly associated with prejudice; however, how these
interrelate is not fully understood. We investigated how different dimensions of
psychological essentialism (naturalness, discreteness, homogeneity, and …

 

Human Sexual Polymorphism and Predicted Ranges of Morphological Variation in Human Skeletal Sex Indicators

CM Astorino - American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2025

Objective Humans, while most often considered to be sexually dimorphic by
biologists, exhibit a greater range of variation in sex traits than is generally
acknowledged. Intersex individuals, or those with a combination of traits traditionally …

 

 

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