This quick check helps to quickly recognize to what extent the dimensions "sex and gender" [1] can and should be considered in a research project and which aspects are particularly relevant.
[1] The German word "Geschlecht" combines the dimensions "sex" and "gender", which are referred to separately in English. Sex describes the biological dimensions of gender, which can also be summarized as genetic sex (gonosomes), gonadal sex (gonads, germ cells and hormone production) and genital sex (internal and external genitalia) (Joel 2012).
Gender describes psychosociocultural dimensions of gender: gender identity as a psychological dimension, gender roles and norms, gender relations and institutional and structural dimensions of gender as sociocultural dimensions (Heise et al. 2019).
See Joel, Daphna (2012): Genetic-gonadal-genitals sex (3G-sex) and the misconception of brain and gender, or, why 3G-males and 3G-females have intersex brain and intersex gender. In: Biology of sex differences 3 (1), p. 27. DOI: 10.1186/2042-6410-3-27.
See Heise, Lori; Greene, Margaret E.; Opper, Neisha; Stavropoulou, Maria; Harper, Caroline; Nascimento, Marcos; Zewdie, Debrework (2019): Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms: framing the challenges to health. In: Lancet (London, England) 393 (10189), pp. 2440-2454. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)30652-x.
