On this partner page gender related content will be shared
SPRINT materials referring to Gender Dimension (chronologically newest to oldest)
- Reference/link to new gender blog (coming soon)
- Reference/link to gender page in new newsletter (coming soon)
- Key Findings of the Gender Survey among all SPRINT participants (oct. 2025)
- Poster see also below
- D 4.6 Report on the gender-specific analysis addressing distinct toxicological effects patterns of pesticides mixtures, authored by Daniele Mandrioli, Eoin Gunnigle, Benjamin Vervaet, Simona Panzacchi, Daria Sgargi, Eva Tibaldi, Francesca Truzzi, Rie Matsuzaki, Silvina da Silva, Margreet van der Burg, Paul T.J. Scheepers (Febr. 2025) with presentation final conference slides;
(login needed) Poster 16-weeks of exposure to a real-world, low-dose pesticide mixture in rats, (2024) by Sylvina da Silva Fernandes - D 3.6 Exposure to PPPs by gender in farmers, neighbours and consumers, by Paul Scheepers, Nina Wieland, Daniel Figueiredo, Hans Mol (2025)
- Newsletter 8, Dec 2024, p. 19 presentation of the SPRINT Gender Committee and its work
- (login needed) GC WORKSHOP: Integration of Gender+ In Sprint Policy Recommendations (2024), PPT by Gender Committee
- (login needed) Gender Committee report, PPT Annual meeting 2022
- Self-assessment of gender capacities and perceptions. KEY FINDINGS of the Gender Survey among SPRINT participants – Brief 2021
- Key Findings of the Gender Survey among all SPRINT participants Oct. 2021 -Infographic (2022)
- D 2.4 Inventory on EPAH health status in CSS (2022), by Abdallah Alaoui, Anne Vested, Florian Christ, Neus González, Vera Silva, Lingtong Gai, Vivi Schlünssen, Violette Geissen & colleagues
- D 2.3 Inventory of PPP distribution and accumulation in EPAH, including gender differences by Anne Vested, Vivi Schlünssen, Natacha van Groeningen, Abdallah Alaoui, Nieves González Paradell, Hans Mol, Dennis Knuth, Lingtong Gai, Violette Geissen & colleagues (2022)
- D 9.2 Gender insights into the EU-SPRINT project (2022) by Margreet van der Burg as principal author
- INTEGRATING GENDER IN THE SPRING PROJECT AND COMMUNITY. From stakeholders’ engagement to gender-sensitive PPP-related risks assessment? (2021) PPT Gender Training by Maxime Forest, and Programme Gender Training (2021)
The Gender+ dimension in SPRINT (Poster, June 2025) - Clickable!
Gender Infographic - October 2025 - Clickable!
Supportive materials:
EIGE (European Institute for Gender Equality), look especially under Gender Equality in Academia and Research for tools and more explanation
How to integrate the gender dimension in Horizon Europe projects
Gendered Innovations 2: How Inclusive Analysis Contributes to Research and Innovation (2022)
Gender dimension under WUR Grant Office – Horizon Europe
A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 of the European Commission (2020)
Striving for a Union of Equality - leaflet on Gender Equality Strategy of the European Commission (2020)
European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, She figures 2024 – Gender in research and innovation – Statistics and indicators, Publications Office of the European Union, (2025)
Other sources:
Collection of sources on gender and pesticides (2024)
ARTICLE: The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes
When broadcaster Sandi Toksvig was studying anthropology at university, one of her female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with 28 markings on it. “This,” said the professor, “is alleged to be man’s first attempt at a calendar.” Toksvig and her fellow students looked at the bone in admiration. “Tell me,” the professor continued, “what man needs to know when 28 days have passed? I suspect that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.” Women have always tracked their periods. We’ve had to. Since 2015, I’ve been reliant on a period tracker app which reassures me that there’s a been reliant on a period tracker app, which reassures me that there's a reason I’m welling up just thinking about Andy Murray’s “casual feminism”. And then there’s the issue of the period itself: when you will be bleeding for up to seven days every month, it’s useful to know more or less when those seven days are going to take place. Every woman knows this, and Toksvig’s experience is a neat example of the difference a female perspective can make, even to issues that seem entirely unrelated to gender.
Men and women have different immune systems and hormones, which can play a role in how chemicals are absorbed. Women tend to be smaller than men and have thinner skin, both of which can lower the level of toxins they can be safely exposed to. This lower tolerance threshold is compounded by women’s higher percentage of body fat, in which some chemicals can accumulate. Chemicals are still usually tested in isolation, and on the basis of a single exposure. But this is not how women tend to encounter them.
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