The Harvard Gazette has published an article detailing a study from Professor Sarah Richardson's GenderSci Lab, which seeks to address the gender disparity in COVID-19 fatalities, in which it appears that men are dying from COVID at a higher rate than women. The study suggest that this disparity "has less to do with biological differences between the sexes and more with a series of social factors."

Professor Richardson explains, “... the idea here is to attend to the actual factors that are causing that greater vulnerability in men. If we had attended more to those factors, one might imagine that … men may have been better protected during the pandemic.”

The study was also covered in a recent article in the New York Times, "Why Are Men More Likely to Die of Covid? It’s Complicated." The GenderSci Lab also explains the study's findings in further detail in a post on their blog.

Professor Richardson directs the GenderSci Lab, an interdisciplinary feminist research group that works to advance the intersectional study of gender in the biomedical and allied sciences, counter bias and hype in sex difference research, and enhance public discourse surrounding the sciences of sex and gender. Her latest book is The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects from University of Chicago Press.