{"id":503,"date":"2019-12-20T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/?p=503"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:00:54","slug":"how-gendered-language-leads-scientists-astray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/20\/how-gendered-language-leads-scientists-astray\/","title":{"rendered":"How gendered language leads scientists astray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-507\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Washington_Post_logo_black.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"5000\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Washington_Post_logo_black.png 5000w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Washington_Post_logo_black-300x46.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Washington_Post_logo_black-768x117.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Washington_Post_logo_black-1024x155.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/12\/Washington_Post_logo_black-1000x152.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5000px) 100vw, 5000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Max Lambert and Melina Packer report on the language used to describe the effects of endocrine-disrupting contaminants on amphibians.\u00a0 Much of the media attention on the effects of these pollutants fixates on reproduction consequences and often uses imprecise language.\u00a0\u00a0Our use of language, even some scientific terminology, brings in cultural bias.\u00a0 For instance, as Lambert and Packer remark &#8220;describing frogs (or any animal) as \u201cfeminized\u201d or \u201cdemasculinized\u201d is problematic at multiple levels. First, frogs are not feminine or masculine to begin with \u2014 those are human descriptions of the socially constructed human gender binary, not sex. &#8230;. When we project our anthropocentric assumptions onto amphibians, we might actually miss what\u2019s good or bad for them.&#8221;\u00a0 Since amphibians are undergoing a global crises, we must understand their biology objectively divorced from our cultural and historic biases.\u00a0 De-gendering our language is a first step.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2019\/06\/10\/how-gendered-language-leads-scientists-astray\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Lambert and Melina Packer report on the language used to describe the effects of endocrine-disrupting contaminants on amphibians.\u00a0 Much of the media attention on the effects of these pollutants fixates on reproduction consequences and often uses imprecise language.\u00a0\u00a0Our use of language, even some scientific terminology, brings in cultural bias.\u00a0 For instance, as Lambert and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/20\/how-gendered-language-leads-scientists-astray\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How gendered language leads scientists astray<\/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-503","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\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}