{"id":481,"date":"2019-12-20T13:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/?p=481"},"modified":"2019-12-20T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:36:13","slug":"gender-bias-in-experimental-neurosciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/20\/gender-bias-in-experimental-neurosciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender bias in experimental neurosciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-483\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Nature-Journal-Logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Nature-Journal-Logo-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Nature-Journal-Logo-2-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Nature-Journal-Logo-2-768x202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Nature-Journal-Logo-2-1024x270.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Nature-Journal-Logo-2-1000x263.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coiro and Pollak in a 2019 reviewed 432 articles examining the effects of infection during gestation on the behavior of offspring.\u00a0 They found that research preferentially studied male offspring.\u00a0 Of these studies, ~40% examined only male offspring, 40% examined both female and male offspring, and &lt;3% examined only female offspring (many studies did not report offspring sex).\u00a0 Even when both daughters and sons were used, sex differences were not always evaluated.\u00a0 The authors speculate that &#8220;this neglect of female subjects in basic research may stem from a hard-wired sex\/gender bias, which may also be reflected in a similar attitude toward female scientists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article see https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41398-019-0423-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coiro and Pollak in a 2019 reviewed 432 articles examining the effects of infection during gestation on the behavior of offspring.\u00a0 They found that research preferentially studied male offspring.\u00a0 Of these studies, ~40% examined only male offspring, 40% examined both female and male offspring, and &lt;3% examined only female offspring (many studies did not report&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/20\/gender-bias-in-experimental-neurosciences\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gender bias in experimental neurosciences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}