Dear all,
I attended the Gender Summit 2014 this week. Funnily, there was a very enlightening talk
by J. Ramsey (from S. Bahn's group) about sex differences in biomarkers of physiatrics
disorders. Overall, in 3 disorders, they found 1 with no sex difference in the biomarkers,
1 with biomarkers that were ONLY accurate for men, and 1 with male-specific and
female-specific biomarkers. Based on this, I would strongly suggest that our default
hypothesis should be to assume that there will be sex differences in the biomarkers (and
we can then test to see if the markers are the same for both sexes). (I'm attaching
one ms from them here).
If you agree with this, we should then include this hypothesis everywhere into the
proposal structure, including the WP descriptions.
There is also an interesting website that gives examples and guidelines about how to
include gender and sex into STEM science, in case you are interested:
http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/
best,
Veronica