Sex Contextualism
We created a set of educational resources to accompany Sarah Richardson’s pragmatic conceptual framework and 2022 paper: “Sex Contextualism”
Gender/Sex and COVID-19
What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths?
Our newest paper was published in Social Science and Medicine. It’s the first longitudinal study to quantify variation in COVID-19 gender/sex disparities across U.S. states.
Check out our paper in Nature, which dismantles a prominent sex difference claim regarding the immune response to COVID-19
Theorizing Sperm Count Research
We contextualize and explain this paper on our blog and Slate op-ed!
Start with our Introduction and Primer, then dive into our focus blog posts:
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Blog & Publications
We bring together gender scholars and biomedical scientists to build and validate new theory and methods for the intersectional study of gender/sex in human populations.
Research Streams
biology of sex in law and public policy
Using methods from law, media studies, and the social studies, history, and philosophy of science, alongside a deep understanding of the science itself, this project tracks and examines how scientific claims about sex and gender are cited and mobilized in law, public policy, and media discourse.
Gender as a Biomedical Variable
This project forges concepts and methods for studying gender as an intersectional variable in the biomedical and allied sciences.
Replicability, Bias, and Hype in Sex/Gender Difference Research
Contributing to current interest in addressing concerns about bias and replicability in the biomedical sciences, we argue for the application and innovation of meta-analysis to examine research design and effect sizes in sex/gender difference research across disciplines.
Healthcare and Finance
Tracks the implications and decodes the dynamics of financial firms on the health of women and gender minorities. We consider what financialized and commodified health products mean for health systems and gendered and sexed bodies.