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New Teaching Tool from the GenderSci Lab on Gender/Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes

The “Gender/Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes” guide and toolkit is an open-access Google Slides presentation offered by the Harvard GenderSci Lab for adoption in introductory-level gender studies, feminist science studies, and health sciences courses. The presentation helps students develop a critical and intersectional understanding of sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes.

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Introducing the GenderSci Lab COVID Project

In most places, men are dying at higher rates than women of COVID-19. In this post, accompanying our Op-Ed in the NYT and the launch of our US Gender/Sex in COVID-19 Data Tracker, we explain how the explanation for this trend is not all biology. In fact, our findings strongly suggests that gender/sex differences in COVID-19 vulnerabilities mediated by social context.

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