REVIEW How is sex considered in recent epidemiological publications on occupational risks?

Objectives—Although women account for almost half the working population in industrialised countries, a sex bias per-sists in publications on medical research in general and occupational health in par-ticular. The objective was to review recent publications on how sex is considered in epidemiological studies of occupational health, and to answer the following ques-tions: aremen and women studied equally, what are the respective characteristics of the studies which comprise only men, only women, and both, and what strategy of data analysis is chosen by the authors t