Page 57 - ESHRE2019

Men are the “second sex” in reproduction research
• Normative assumptions about the significance of childbearing for women
• Practice of assisted reproduction largely works on the female body
• Men are less often available for convenience samples
• Men are more inclined to resist the intrusive effects of psycho-social research (Culley et al. 2013, p. 226)
Heidelberg University Hospital | ESHRE PCC 8 Vienna (Austria) 23 June 2019 | Prof. Dr. Tewes Wischmann | 7
Methodological considerations (I)
The results of much of the available research supporting women‘s greater overt distress in response to infertility may well reflect differences in the ways in which men and women have been socialized to cope with negative affect
(Webb & Daniluk 1999)
The claim women react more adversely to infertility than their partners is overly influenced by outdated gender stereotyping and is unsupported by research data
(Edelmann & Connolly 2000, Fisher et al. 2010)
Heidelberg University Hospital | ESHRE PCC 8 Vienna (Austria) 23 June 2019 | Prof. Dr. Tewes Wischmann | 8
52
PRECONGRESS COURSE 08 I VIENNA, AUSTRIA – 23 JUNE 2019 55