Should we use “sex” and “gender” interchangeably when discussing people? A recent article in the prestigious academic journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides one ...

Historically, medical research has been male-dominated in terms of subjects as well as researchers, even though women make up ...

Women in recent decades have made significant progress in higher education and in the workplace. But they continue to lag behind men when it comes to wages and to representation in top leadership ...

Reducing barriers to self-care and self-compassion for clinicians could significantly reduce burnout and improve professional ...

Overall comparison of the experimental power literature and sex/gender difference meta-analyses. Overall, 70.6% of sex/gender differences were consistent with the effects of experimentally induced ...

Though partisanship remains a far bigger factor than gender in U.S. abortion attitudes, the opinions of men and women have ...

Suicide remains one of the most pressing yet complex public health challenges of our time. While the global conversation on mental health is expanding, the ...

Gender differences in poverty rates in the United States may be associated with women’s differing circumstances — ...

Some scientific findings are black and white. This is seldom the case for the science of gender. To interpret research on gender, it is not enough to understand research methods in social science.

Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. The history of medicine, of illness, is every bit as social and ...