This fall, we welcomed Alexandra Kralick to the GenderSci Lab as our new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral associate! We sat down with Alexandra for a Q&A to learn more about her plans and work in the lab!

We sat down to talk with Katie Lee, who recently became an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. Katie has been an active member of GSL for several years and provides useful insight from her gender studies, bioanthropology, and engineering background.

Recently lab director Sarah Richardson published a paper proposing sex contextualism as a new model for conceptualizing and operationalizing sex in biomedical research. We take a moment to unpack sex contextualism with Sarah, digging into both the substance and the implications of her argument.

In this Q & A, we ask Professor Stern more about the specific ways in which the alt-right animates fears of white male decline, revives biologically essentialist ideas about gender, and insinuates the authority of legitimate scholarship, in particular through appeals to science. We also invite her reflections on how interdisciplinary feminist science studies scholars can responsibly engage with the alt-right’s deeply problematic claims.

Here, we situate the Gender Equality Paradox in the larger field of understanding gender segregation in STEM fields by talking to renowned scholar Professor Maria Charles, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Broom Center for Demography, and Feminist Studies affiliate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Charles has worked for decades to understand why postindustrial countries have greater segregation in STEM fields, and she draws on her broad expertise on the persistence of gender inequalities in gender-progressive societies and global variation in gender equality to help us understand the Gender Equality Paradox.

Interview with GenderSci Lab Assistant Director Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, Newly-Appointed Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at University of Southern Maine

Interview with GenderSci Lab Assistant Director Meredith Reiches, winner of the 2019 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

Interview with GenderSci Lab member Maayan Sudai, Assistant Professor of Law and of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Haifa

Brain sex-difference research usually focuses on average differences between men and women. Neuroscientist Daphna Joel challenges this approach by asking, “Wait! What exactly do you mean by ‘difference’?”