Cederroth Christopher R, Earp Brian D, Gómez Prada Hernando C, Jarach Carlotta M, Lir Shlomit A, Norris Colleen M, Pilote Louise, Raparelli Valeria, Rochon Paula, Sahraoui Nina, Simmon Cassandra, Vissandjee Bilkis, Mour Chloé, Arbogast Mathieu, Armengol José María, Mason Robin
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Translational Hearing Research, Tübingen Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
EClinicalMedicine. 2024 Jul 13;74:102728. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102728. eCollection 2024 Aug.
Gender equality has been a crosscutting issue in Horizon 2020 with three objectives: gender balance in decision-making, gender balance and equal opportunities in project teams at all levels, and inclusion of the gender dimension in research and innovation content. Between 2017 and 2022, the EU funded, in collaboration with national agencies, 13 transnational projects under "GENDER-NET Plus" that explored how to best integrate both sex and gender into studies ranging from social sciences, humanities, and health research. As the projects neared completion, forty researchers from these interdisciplinary teams met in November 2022 to share experiences, discuss challenges, and consider the best ways forward to incorporate sex and gender in research. Here, we summarize the reflections from this workshop and provide some recommendations for i) how to plan the studies (e.g., how to define sex and/or gender and their dimensions, rationale for the hypotheses, identification of data that can best answer the research question), ii) how to conduct them (e.g., adjust definitions and dimensions, perform pilot studies to ensure proper use of terminology and revise until consensus is achieved), and iii) how to analyze and report the findings being mindful of any real-world impact.
性别平等一直是“地平线2020”计划中的一个贯穿各领域的问题，该计划有三个目标：决策过程中的性别平衡、各级项目团队中的性别平衡和平等机会，以及将性别层面纳入研究和创新内容。2017年至2022年期间，欧盟与各国机构合作，在“性别网络升级版”框架下资助了13个跨国项目，这些项目探讨了如何将性别因素最佳地融入从社会科学、人文科学到健康研究等各类研究中。随着这些项目接近尾声，来自这些跨学科团队的40名研究人员于2022年11月齐聚一堂，分享经验、讨论挑战，并思考将性别因素纳入研究的最佳前进方向。在此，我们总结了本次研讨会的思考内容，并就以下方面提供一些建议：一是如何规划研究（例如，如何定义性别及其维度、假设的依据、确定最能回答研究问题的数据）；二是如何开展研究（例如，调整定义和维度、进行试点研究以确保术语的正确使用并不断修订直至达成共识）；三是如何分析和报告研究结果，同时要考虑到对现实世界的任何影响。
