A study suggests women are more likely to reject men’s corneas, contradicting practice and previous research. Doctors who transplant corneas have always thought of the vision-saving surgery as gender-neutral, but a new study in the U.K. has found that female patients do better if they get their new corneas from other women rather than men.
Sex and gender are critical components of biological research that are often forgotten or ignored. If we wish to conduct research that fails less and helps more people, we need to take sex into account. Gendered Innovations is an international, collaborative project—funded by the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation, and Stanford University—that harnesses the creative power of sex and gender analysis for innovation and discovery.
Gendered Innovations Project shows different case studies on improving products through gender analysis. This includes cases of gaming, recruitment, banking, wereables, big data, automobil safety, assistive tecnologies, media, natural language processing, search algorithms, biometrics, toys.
This policy brief provides evidence-based, concrete recommendations for national level policy makers and institutional science leaders on how to build gender competence and knowledge in research performing organisations (RPOs) and research funding organisations (RFOs) in order to achieve institutional transformation.
