Collection

Gender Medicine

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
01 January 2022
Submission deadline
Ongoing
The awareness that biological sex (i.e., sex assigned at birth) and sociocultural gender (i.e., sociocultural norms roles and expectations) are relevant modifiers of health and disease has been a recent achievement by the life sciences researchers and clinicians [1]. Despite the advocacy of international societies and gender champions to promote the knowledge on sex and gender analysis for improving the quality of science, the terms are still often used interchangeably, yet they capture different aspects of a person. Specifically, gender refers to the psychosocial aspects of being a woman or a man (“psychosocial sex”) as opposed to the biological aspects of being male or female (“biological sex”) [2]. However, some males and females may report gender-related characteristics traditionally attributed to the opposite sex, and some individuals may identify as neither male nor female thereby leading to the increasing recognition of gender as a spectrum (rather than binary entity) in social sciences and the general public. As such, the distribution of gender-related characteristics within populations of men and women is likely to influence health differently than biological sex.

Editors

  • Stefania Basili Stefania Basili

    Stefania Basili

    Stefania Basili is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Internal and Specialized Medicine

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