Scientia – October 8, 2025
What are sex and gender? While biologic or physiologic differences are tremendously important, so too are the ways that women and men experience their lives and their work differently. Women often have very different experiences of health care because of bias or prejudice within the system. Equally, men get treated differently and often don’t seek health care because of the ways that gender norms encourage them to be resilient and not seek care. So, is gender an ideology? We were luck to speak with Shirin Heidari, Thomas Babor, and Jocalyn Clark, who helped us navigate the muddy waters of the current climate.