[Ramm] [Gendered Innovations] Virtual assistants; New book on Molecular Feminisms; Sex, gender, brains, and behavior, Medical school curricula; Gender and pain, Analysis of the Athena Swan program arguing that it needs to consider how researchers integrate sex/gender into research

[Londa Schiebinger]

1. 30 minute podcast with Londa Schiebinger on Gendered Innovations: https://soundcloud.com/user-458541487/institutions-must-add-gender-diversity-in-their-ranks-and-in-research-with-guest-londa-schiebinger?in=user-458541487/sets/the-future-of-everything-with.

2. Nora NiLoideain and Rachel Adams on Virtual Personal Assistants and how the EU GDPR can be applied--attached. Abstract: With female names, voices and characters, artificially intelligent Virtual Personal Assistants such as Alexa, Cortana, and Siri appear to be decisively gendered female. Through an exploration of the various facets of gendering at play in the design of Siri, Alexa and Cortana, we argue that this gendering of VPAs as female may pose a societal harm, insofar as they reproduce normative assumptions about the role of women as submissive and secondary to men. In response, this article turns to examine the potential role and scope of data protection law as one possible solution to this problem. In particular, we examine the role of data privacy impact assessments that highlight the need to go beyond the data privacy paradigm, and require data controllers to consider and address the social impact of their products.

3. New book by Deboleena Roy, Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab<https://globalhealthandsocialmedicine.com/2019/01/29/book-launch-molecular-feminisms-biology-becomings-and-life-in-the-lab/>. Just out.

4. New article looking at issues of Transgender in facial recognition: Keyes, O. (2018). The misgendering machines: Trans/HCI implications of automatic gender recognition. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), 88. https://ironholds.org/resources/papers/agr_paper.pdf

5.  Cordelia Fine, Daphna Joel and Gina Rippon write: Eight things you need to know about sex, gender, brains, and behavior:
A guide for academics, journalists, parents, gender diversity advocates, social justice warriors, tweeters, Facebookers, and everyone else not otherwise specified<http://sfonline.barnard.edu/neurogenderings/eight-things-you-need-to-know-about-sex-gender-brains-and-behavior-a-guide-for-academics-journalists-parents-gender-diversity-advocates-social-justice-warriors-tweeters-facebookers-and-ever/>

6. The Influence of Sex and Gender on Health: How Much Is Being Taught in Medical School Curricula? https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2018.7229 by Njeri K. Thande, Melinda Wang, Kaveri Curlin, Nisha Dalvie, and Carolyn M. Mazure. Materials and Methods: This study evaluates a medical curriculum for sex- and gender-based content and provides recommendations for establishing and integrating pertinent sex and gender medicine didactics. Trained first-and second-year medical students audited 548 lectures and workshops to determine sex- and gender-based content. Results: Less than 25% of all sessions raised the topic of sex or gender influences on physiology and pathophysiology or the experience of the patient in the health care environment. Only 8.1% of all sessions included an in-depth discussion of sex or gender differences, and these discussions predominantly focused on basic physiology and prevalence and/or incidence of disease, and not on available data on sex- and gender-specific influences on diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and drug effects. The didactics that included data on sex or gender influences were largely in lectures rather than small group sessions, which are important for the development of critical clinical reasoning skills. Conclusions: A survey-based audit of medical school curricula can inform recommendations for improving the inclusion of data on sex- and gender-based content.

7. Gender and pain: Men are more often than women fooled by placebo. It was not until the 1990s that researchers fully began to include both genders in health research. Sara Magelssen Vambheim has contributed with valuable new insights in her study of gender differences in pain experiences. http://kjonnsforskning.no/en/2019/03/men-are-more-often-women-fooled-placebo

8. In this analysis of the Athena SWAN scheme, the authors argue that Athena SWAN should go to the "knowledge level," i.e., also consider how researchers integrate sex/gender into research.  Schmidt, E. K., Ovseiko, P. V., Henderson, L. R., & Kiparoglou, V. (2019). Understanding the Athena SWAN award scheme for gender equality as a complex social intervention in a complex system: analysis of Silver award action plans in a comparative European perspective. bioRxiv, 555482. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/02/26/555482.full.pdf


All best, Londa

Londa Schiebinger
Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/schiebinger.html

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