Menstrual tracking apps have become all the rage, leading the growing field of “femtech” that claims to help women understand — and regulate — their bodies. But these apps may promise more than they d...

This includes apps that promote the practice of cycle syncing.

Gender/sex variables are often included in clinical algorithms, typically without articulating which aspects of gender or sex-linked biologies are hypothesized to contribute to the tools’ output. To d...

Understanding how hormones impact us can be empowering, especially for people with endocrine disorders – but there’s a risk that ascribing every passing feeling to hormones is reviving tired, sexist n...

Abstract In this article, we introduce the term “investment feminism” to characterize the phenomenon in which financial actors position investment as a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. As a...

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Models of sex-biased migration or admixture in human history often use sex itself as the factor that controls the probability that an individual migrates. This modeling strategy unites work across a ....

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In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…

This article considers how to approach sporting injury from the perspective of gender/sex entanglement. Taking the case of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, I explore how the gender differen...

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US executive order 14168 of 20 January 2025 terminated federal funding for research that examines gender as a scientific and social construct beyond the so-called “immutable biological classification ...

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Call for papers for social science and humanities scholars studying eggs, sperm, and gender/sex in the 21st century

Historian focusing on the role of eugenics, domestic science, and religion in public health and child welfare.

Scientific research associations, funders, and publishers have recently introduced sex inclusion mandates requiring the use of male and female specimens in preclinical research designs and the analysi...

This essay introduces the term investment feminism to characterize the phenomenon in which financial actors position investment as a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. We offer investment fem...

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Join The Moynihan Center for a panel featuring Catherine Clune-Taylor, Anais Hausvater, Sarah Richardson, and Angela Saini.

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Key sports science metric fails to account for unequal resources between male and female athletes, finds a new Harvard study.

The concept of biological sex guides research, clinical practice, science funding policy, and contemporary political discourse. Despite some substantive differences, all existing candidate philosophic...

New research highlights how gender inequalities in sports could be distorting injury data and calls for more accurate measurements

High rates of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in girls’ and women’s sports have garnered significant attention from researchers, sport organisations and the media. Gender/sex disparities in ...

We sat down to talk with Marion Boulicault, who recently became an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Marion is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research and Community ...

This September, members of the GenderSci Lab collectively drafted a letter to the subcommittee of the Journal of the American Medical Association tasked with developing and releasing guidelines for sc...

Over its history, the Journal circulated ideas about innate sex differences that facilitated essentialization of women to their reproductive roles and exclusion of women from medicine, among other ...

Over its history, the Journal circulated ideas about innate sex differences that facilitated essentialization of women to their reproductive roles and exclusion of women from medicine, among other ...

Understanding sex-related variation in health and illness requires rigorous and precise approaches to revealing underlying mechanisms. A first step is to recognize that sex is not in and of itself a c...

We are recruiting for a 2-year postdoctoral associate for an NSF-funded project about operationalizations of sex in laboratory science! We especially welcome applications from philosophers of biolog...