Take drug policy, for instance. It's true that drugs are metabolized differently based on sex. Maybe you didn't see the Health Canada warning about sleeping pills, and that women are recommended to take half the dose. The last time you went to the pharmacist, were you asked, are you a man or a woman, or what dose should I give you? We do it for children, but we don't do it for adults, and yet for certain brands of sleeping pills, the blood level the next morning is 45% higher in women. It's not for that reason we are bad drivers. It's that we were overdosed, so that would be about sex. That's why we say that's the sex-related factor. In drug regulation are we even being transparent about what applies to men and women?
The gender-related factor is why are so many more women taking sleeping pills? I don't know if any of you here are old enough to remember the expression “take a tranq”, or take a tranquillizer. It's women's...it's the gender perception and the gender relation in society that says we need to be cool, calm, collected, always in control, juggling our kids and our jobs, and looking good at the same time. That's the societal institutionalized perception of gender, and so would it make sense that women have more anxiety than men? Probably not, when we look at suicide rates, and yet it's acceptable for women to be taking pills, to ask for more pills for depression and anxiety over men, and that's a gender issue.
I've differentiated around drug policy, for instance, that you need to approach it from a sex and a gender perspective. I don't know if that's a good example for you, but that's how we approach it from a scientific basis.