[Ramm] [Gendered Innovations] New Research

Mon May 18 01:46:56 IST 2020

Some interesting new research!

1. The European Institute for Gender Equality has a webpage on COVID-19 & gender equality: https://eige.europa.eu/topics/health/covid-19-and-gender-equality

2. Sex and Gender Differences in Health: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Teach Us. Annals of Internal Medicine: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1941
3. Lipstick on a Pig: Debiasing Methods Cover up Systematic Gender Biases in Word Embeddings But do not Remove Them<https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03862>. Hila Gonen<https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Gonen%2C+H>, Yoav Goldberg<https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Goldberg%2C+Y>.

4. Larson, B. N., 2017: Gender as a variable in natural-language processing: Ethical considerations.<https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1601.pdf> Proceedings of the First Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, Valencia, Spain, 30-40.

5. Reducing Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation as a Domain Adaptation Problem. Danielle Saunders<https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Saunders%2C+D>, Bill Byrne<https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Byrne%2C+B>
6.  [PDF] Unsupervised Discovery of Implicit Gender Bias<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.08361&hl=en&sa=X&d=8320419309370798066&scisig=AAGBfm2qbq7wvGW4AJnYfXg2M6JF_FTvqw&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=ez52Y4EAAAAJ:157695750945470333:AAGBfm2yJQtRxqDt_wvQb-2_xVt7TjjCTw>
A Field, Y Tsvetkov - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.08361, 2020
Despite their prevalence in society, social biases are difficult to define and identify,
primarily because human judgements in this domain can be unreliable. Therefore,
we take an unsupervised approach to identifying gender bias at a comment or ...

7. Origins of Sex Differentiation of Brain and Behavior<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40002-6_15&hl=en&sa=X&d=16339990034743812783&scisig=AAGBfm3qmuGc79dyI2M6W1VLMUWwbyIr1g&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=ez52Y4EAAAAJ:188313754177988820:AAGBfm22_UmMAys7YpeKC3pYvlxDCLWUkA>
MM McCarthy - Developmental Neuroendocrinology, 2020
Sex differences in adult brain and behavior are often established early in
development when the brain is remarkably immature. In adults sex differences take
on many forms including latent variables, dimorphisms, frequency, and more ...

8. [HTML] Sex and Gender Differences in Heart Failure<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://e-heartfailure.org/search.php%3Fwhere%3Daview%26id%3D10.36628/ijhf.2020.0004%26code%3D9987IJHF%26vmode%3DFULL&hl=en&sa=X&d=10170334971718473413&scisig=AAGBfm0F-5FquUdhLeCorYJE0IevlNdzAg&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=ez52Y4EAAAAJ:188313754177988820:AAGBfm22_UmMAys7YpeKC3pYvlxDCLWUkA>
V Regitz-Zagrosek - International Journal of Heart Failure, 2020
Heart failure (HF) phenotypes differ according to sex. HF preserved ejection fraction
(EF) has a greater prevalence in women and HF reduced EF (HFrEF) in men.
Women with HF survive longer than men and have a lower risk of sudden death ...

9. The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/10/1915378117&hl=en&sa=X&d=18156057191157507508&scisig=AAGBfm2vcGHV3IF3bsSgGvb6pvzxL16uJQ&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=ez52Y4EAAAAJ:157695750945470333:AAGBfm2yJQtRxqDt_wvQb-2_xVt7TjjCTw>
B Hofstra, VV Kulkarni, SMN Galvez, B He, D Jurafsky... - Proceedings of the National ..., 2020
Prior work finds a diversity paradox: Diversity breeds innovation, yet
underrepresented groups that diversify organizations have less successful careers
within them. Does the diversity paradox hold for scientists as well? We study this by ...

10. Ahead of the 73rd World Health Assembly<https://womeningh.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3baa3c42161aef075ad51675b&id=134dad4a40&e=96c794b692>, the WHO released a comprehensive advocacy brief on Gender and COVID-19, focusing on six ways member states can ensure their responses are gender-sensitive:

  1.  Collecting, reporting and analyzing COVID-19 data in a sex-disaggregated and gender-responsive way
  2.  Including responses to violence against women, and particularly intimate partner violence, as an essential service within the COVID-19 response - and resourcing these activities adequately
  3.  Maintaining the availability of, and equitable access to, sexual and reproductive health services
  4.  Ensuring that all front-line health and social workers and caregivers have equitable access to training, PPE and other essential products, psychosocial support and social protection - taking into account the specific needs of women who constitute the majority of such workers
  5.  Removing financial and other barriers to COVID19 testing and treatment services and ensuring equitable access to essential health services, as well as access to safe water and sanitation facilities, especially in disadvantaged areas such as rural communities and informal settlements
  6.  Stressing that health is a human right; this means ensuring that emergency responses to COVID-19 are inclusive and nondiscriminatory, and to identifying and working to counter stigmatizing and discriminatory practices in COVID-19 responses
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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