1. Londa Schiebinger
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science
Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment

2. Forthcoming 2014
Women and Gender in Science and Technology, ed. Londa Schiebinger (Routledge, 2014).
4 vols. of classic readings in the field plus introductions.

7. Classic Feminist Theory
Evelyn Fox Keller: object/relations theory
Donna Haraway: situated knowledges
Sandra Harding: strong objective
standpoint theory
Social Constructivism; Colonial/Post-Colonial Studies

8. Classic focus on gender bias

10. Gendered Innovations…
harness the creative power of sex and gender analysis to discover new things.

11. Gendered Innovations…
provide researchers with the tools to integrate sex and gender analysis into science and engineering research.

12. Business Case—Public Health
Science ( ): Between 1997 and 2000, 10 drugs were withdrawn from the U.S. market because of life-threatening health effects—8 of those showed greater severity in women.

13. Business Case Sex and gender bias in research
is expensive in terms of lives and costs.
limits scientific creativity, excellence, and benefits to society.

14. Most research is done in males

15. Beery, A., & Zucker, I. (2011). Sex Bias in Neuroscience and Biomedical Research. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35 (3),

16. Taylor, K. , Vallejo-Giraldo, C. , Schaible, N. , Zakeri, R
Taylor, K., Vallejo-Giraldo, C., Schaible, N., Zakeri, R., & Miller, V. (2011). Reporting of Sex as a Variable in Cardiovascular Studies using Cultured Cells. Biology of Sex Differences, 2 (11), Percentage of articles reporting sex of cells used in the experiments

17. Gendered Innovation Example 1
Stem cells: Why sex matters

20. Consider sex in interaction with other factors:
Cell type
Disease
Other variables: hormonal, immunological, environmental