Stop funding research that ignores sex and gender, says expert

Stanford's Londa Schiebinger warns that failure to account for differing impact of interventions on men and women is costing lives.

Funding bodies should refuse to support scientific studies that do not examine the potential health effects on women as well as men, according to one of the world’s leading experts on gender in science.

Londa Schiebinger, John L. Hinds professor of history of science at Stanford University, told Times Higher Education that influential scholars had a responsibility to “ensure that sex and gender are designed into research and that this becomes a part of research funding requirements”.