How South Korea can build better gender diversity into research
Briefly

Integrating sex and gender as variables in research design is crucial for producing robust results. This includes considering both male and female participants, as well as individuals outside traditional binaries.
The historical exclusion of women in medical research has resulted in inadequate understanding and funding for diseases that specifically affect them, demonstrating the dangerous implications of not including gender considerations.
Significant advancements in medical fields like cancer immunotherapy and osteoporosis have occurred thanks to sex and gender analysis, highlighting the need for this practice in order to make scientific breakthroughs.
Although South Korea promotes the integration of sex and gender analysis in research, substantial work remains to standardize this practice, indicating a broader global need for policy and institutional support.
Read at Nature
[
|
]