Invisible Gender in Medical Research

Gender-sensitive reporting in medical research

Sex and gender differences influence the health and wellbeing of men and women. Although studies have drawn attention to observed differences between women and men across diseases, remarkably little research has been pursued to systematically investigate these underlying sex differences. Women continue to be underrepresented in clinical trials, and even in studies in which both men and women pa...

Investigating gender differences in research performance of Iranian medical faculty members: a scientometric study

Background: Gender differences in scientometric indicators among medical faculty members in Iran was investigated. Methods: The Research performance of the faculty at all universities and institutes of medical sciences in Iran was assessed using the Iranian Scientometric Information Database (ISID) on June 12, 2021. Selected variables in our study were name, gender, university, degree, academi...

Sex and Gender Analysis in Medical and Pharmacological Research

Gender is an essential determinant of social outcomes, including health. Besides, gender can be separated neither from biology nor from other social identifiers as ethnicity, culture, age or social economic class (United Nations,1995). The concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ are a face of the nature– culture debate, with the presumption that sex is unchangeable, whereas gender is constructed and can...

[Nursing research: an invisible reality?].

¿Investigar? ¿Las enfermeras? Desgraciadamente a lo largo de mi vida profesional me he encontrado con muchas personas que me han sorprendido con esta cuestión. Algunas eran ciudadanos ajenos a la profesión, pero en muchas otras ocasiones se trataba de profesionales sanitarios de otros colectivos, incluso altos puestos directivos en alguna administración y curiosamente relacionados con la invest...

Sex & gender: the politics, policy, and practice of medical research.