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Towards a common lexicon in gender analysis for health programs and policies

R Morgan, A Kalbarczyk - Health Policy and Planning, 2026

Gender and gender analysis are frequently misunderstood or conflated with sex and
gender identity, resulting in inconsistent terminology across cultural, social, and
organizational contexts in global public health. This ambiguity has proliferated …
Neuroactive Pollution Disrupts Cognition in Fish by Causing Sex-Specific Effects on Spatial Learning

JL Manera, ER Moore, JM Martin, MG Bertram… - Environmental Science & …, 2026

Cognition underpins how animals perceive, navigate, and respond to their
environment, yet these fundamental processes are increasingly threatened by
environmental pollutants. Neuroactive pharmaceuticals are now routinely detected …
Sex differences in immune responses to viruses, bacteria and vaccines

S Chaulagain, JA Liu, JE McCombs, SL Klein - Nature Immunology, 2026

Sex differences in immune function arise from sex chromosome complement, which
drives differential expression and activity of X-linked genes in immune cells, and
gonadal steroids that transcriptionally regulate innate and adaptive immune cells …
Applying a gender and equity matrix for a contextualized antimicrobial stewardship intervention in Pakistan

SA Khan, MA Khan, I Lynch, N Khan, SE Khan, F Zafar… - Health Policy and Planning, 2026

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health threat that extends beyond
biomedical dimensions, as it is profoundly shaped by social and structural
determinants such as gender, socioeconomic status, and access to care. However …
Influenza B virus suppression of Chromosome Y-linked genes increases pulmonary virus replication and disease severity in male mice

S Klein, S Chaulagain, P Creisher, HS Park, J Liu… - 2026

Influenza B viruses (IBV) are transmitted among humans, with disease being worse
in men than women. C57BL/6 male and female mice were inoculated with Victoria
lineage B/Brisbane/60/2008 containing a PB2 F406Y mutation. Juvenile, adult, and …
Discourses of Gender Equality in Academic Institutions in Selected Central and Eastern European Countries

G Bianchi, M Šudila Žilinská, Z Očenášová… - Gender, Work & …, 2026

… Drawing on and synthesizing perspectives from feminist organizational theory (Ely
and Meyerson 2000) and feminist science and technology studies (Schiebinger 2008),
we adopt the fixes heuristic as a discursive lens for analyzing how organizations 
What goes beyond sex? Unravelling why men hold more favourable attitudes toward human-level AI in the workplace

S Hofreiter, R Kerschreiter, M Spörrle - Behaviour & Information Technology, 2026

A growing body of evidence suggests sex-based differences in attitudes toward
Artificial Intelligence (AI), including transformative AI approaching human-level
capabilities. This research is among the first to examine attitudes toward the …
Gender shapes the relationship between productivity and journal prestige in science

VH Ribeiro, AS Sunahara, G Shahtahmassebi, M Perc… - Scientific Reports, 2026

Gender disparities in academia manifest and persist in various aspects of the
scientific enterprise, yet their influence on the interplay between research
productivity and journal prestige remains underexplored. Here we analyze the …
Gendered patterns of knowledge production: examining female academics' research in higher education research in Japan

Y Kim, X Li - Higher Education, 2026

Adopting the lens of epistemic injustice, this study examines the structural
positioning of female scholars’ knowledge production in higher education research
in Japan. Using bibliometrics combined with a manual thematic analysis of 1,419 …
The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions: Queering Biotechnical Analysis of Sex Estimation

PL Geller - Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice: Equitable …, 2026

Biotechnical innovations in ancient DNA (aDNA) testing and proteomic methods that
examine dental enamel have advanced the estimation of sex in past populations.
Because these techniques effectively materialize chromosomal sex …
ProText: A benchmark dataset for measuring (mis) gendering in long-form texts

H Kotek, M Bowler, P Sonnenberg, Y Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27838, 2026

We introduce ProText, a dataset for measuring gendering and misgendering in
stylistically diverse long-form English texts. ProText spans three dimensions: Theme
nouns (names, occupations, titles, kinship terms), Theme category (stereotypically …

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