{"id":495,"date":"2019-12-20T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/?p=495"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:35:18","slug":"fighting-the-gender-stereotypes-that-warp-biomedical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/20\/fighting-the-gender-stereotypes-that-warp-biomedical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the Gender Stereotypes that Warp Biomedical Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-498\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/NY-Times-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1716\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JoAnna Klein (NY Times, May 2019) reported that just added females to research studies without examining the underlying historic biases that caused females to be neglected in research will not improve the science.\u00a0 Instead we need to &#8216;stop looking through a male lens&#8217;.\u00a0 She continues &#8216;In the Victorian era, the idea that women were inferior to men was replaced by the notion that women were hysterical, disorganized, emotional \u2014 the hormone-driven counterpoints to rational, stable men.&#8217;\u00a0 This bias sets up males as the norm, quoting Daniela Pollak \u201cWe live in a world where the assumption is that males are the standard, the reference population, and females are the ones that are odd\u201d.\u00a0 That bias can affect the interpretation of data, the analysis done by peer reviewers, and the evaluations of grant proposals.\u00a0 Klein&#8217;s article explores some specific flawed outcomes from this historical perspective.<\/p>\n<p>For the complete article see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/30\/health\/gender-stereotypes-research.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/30\/health\/gender-stereotypes-research.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the Shansky Science article that sparked Klein&#8217;s report see: https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/364\/6443\/825<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research JoAnna Klein (NY Times, May 2019) reported that just added females to research studies without examining the underlying historic biases that caused females to be neglected in research will not improve the science.\u00a0 Instead we need to &#8216;stop looking through a male lens&#8217;.\u00a0 She continues &#8216;In the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/20\/fighting-the-gender-stereotypes-that-warp-biomedical-research\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fighting the Gender Stereotypes that Warp Biomedical Research<\/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-495","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\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}