Gender norms and the wellbeing of girls and boys – Author's reply

We are pleased our Article1Kennedy E Binder G Humphries-Waa K et al.Gender inequalities in health and wellbeing across the first two decades of life: an analysis of 40 low-income and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region.Lancet Glob Health. 2020; 8: e1473-e1488Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (14) Google Scholar has generated interest and discussion, including around the need to include boys in gender policy, programming, and research. Severi Luoto and colleagues suggest that we should expect differences in outcome between females and males, and that these differences are driven by biological sex. We agree that biological sex differences might explain some gender disparities in health; however, if observed differences were driven predominantly by biological sex, we would not…