Gender and Health
Analyze the Gender and Health: Beyond Binary Categorical Measurement article and apply concepts from the module to it.
This activity is only an individual submission assignment and not a discussion post. You will not be required to review any of your peers’ work.
Directions
Carefully review the “Background” and “Data and Methods” sections of the research article and then respond to the questions below. Please be thorough with your responses and, where appropriate, provide as much information about the measures as you can find in the article.
Questions
- What are “categorical” measurements and how do they limit the ability to measure gender on surveys?
- What do the researchers do to go “beyond” categorical measurements of gender? How do they measure gender?
- What is the “reflected appraisal gender scale” that the researchers use?
- How did the researchers measure health?