Check out: Gender diversity leads to better science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8), 1740-1742. And ). Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation. Nature human behaviour, 2(10), 726-734.

Ignoring sex and gender analysis can lead to inaccuracies, research inefficiency, and difficulties generalizing results. At the same time, integrating sex, gender, and/or intersectional analysis into science can lead to discovery and innovation. genderedinnovations.stanford…

Our recent Nature article extends intersectional approaches, developed for the most part in the humanities, social sciences and public health, to the fields of natural science and technology, where this type of analysis is less established. Nature, 640(8058), 329-337.

Integrating sex and gender analysis into the design of research, where relevant, can lead to discovery and improved research methodology. Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering. Nature, 575(7781), 137-146.

We also found that when new participants enter traditional disciplines, such as History, new questions were asked. Diversifying history: A large-scale analysis of changes in researcher demographics and scholarly agendas. PLoS One, 17(1), e0262027.

📷Gender diversity may spark new discoveries by broadening the viewpoints and questions asked by researchers. Three key types of diversity are: teams (participants in the room), methods (including gender and sex analysis (GSA), and, perhaps most importantly, questions asked.

Diverse teams aren’t a burden to good science. Well-run research teams enhance modern scientific investigations. But careful management (as shown in the figure below) is required to maximize the benefits of diversity.

...Ignorance can be power, but it can also be a consumer product and corporate fetish. It can be weaponized and deployed; it can crush and coerce. Preface, Ignorance Unmasked. Available SUP Sept 16

From the preface of: Ignorance Unmasked: The New Science of Agnotology out Sept 16: Agnotology explores the unseen, the hidden, the invisible, the ig-nored, the neglected, the overlooked— but also the suppressed, the silenced, the trivialized, the euphemized. ...

New Agnotology volume from Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger available Sept 16.

NEW Nature Perspective: Intersectional Analysis for Science and Technology. Enhances precision in research that best guides global equity and sustainability.