PME-NA

Use of Gender- and Sex-Related Terminology in the PME-NA 2022 to 2024 Proceedings

• In Event: Use of Gender- and Sex-Related Terminology in the PME-NA 2022 to 2024 Proceedings

Description

Gender- and sex-related terminology continues to evolve as societal understandings of gender, sex, and related constructs shift and become more nuanced. However, it is unclear how these societal shifts are reflected in academic research. In this study, we sought to understand how researchers from a wide variety of sub-fields of mathematics education use gender- and sex-related terminology by examining PME-NA conference proceedings from the past 3 years. Although the term gender was used far more often than was the term sex, there was a preponderance of sex-related terms (i.e., male and female) used in the demographic sections of papers. Concerningly, the vast majority of authors did not identify how they conceptualized gender as a construct and/or collected gender data. We call for mathematics education researchers to attend to gender-related language in their work to lend integrity to their findings.

Authors

• Lynda R. Wiest, University of Nevada - Reno

• Jennifer Hall, Monash University

• Katrina Piatek-Jimenez, Central Michigan University

• Amanda Provost, Montclair State University

• Catherine Davis, Michigan State University

• Katryne Dubeau, University of Saskatchewan