Systematic review reveals divergent scientific focus on male physiology versus female behavior in alcohol research, highlighting implications for gender equity and treatment outcomes.
Key Points
To systematically evaluate how single-gender alcohol research differs in its disciplinary focus and framing when studying men compared to women.
Systematic review of single-gender alcohol consumption literature published over the past decade, evaluating research distribution across medical, psychological, public health, and sociological domains.
The majority of single-gender studies on alcohol consumption conducted in the past decade focused on women rather than men.
Studies on men focused heavily on medical health outcomes, whereas studies on women predominantly targeted behavioral, psychological, and sociological dimensions.