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179 gap statements mined from Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 1,705 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • The lack of an account of what values are appropriate for use in science policy advising. The need for a methodology that prevents marginalization in science policy advising.

    Science policy advising & political legitimacy: a feminist public reason account · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need for further research on the challenges faced by women in science and the impact of political and social changes on their careers.

    Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper suggests that future research could further interrogate the roots of science as unquestionable ontological knowledge. The collection of essays highlights the need for continued examination of the role of scientist-citizens in contemporary moments.

    Review/Recenzja: Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli (Eds.). 2025. Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy. Palgrave Macmillan · 2026 · DOI

  • The author argues that the current justifications for scientists’ political involvement are insufficient.

    Science Shouldn't Be Political · 2026 · DOI

  • This does not mean they have to be manifesting a tsunami, but if they believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, that they are lacking in control and power, then these “thoughts of fear, separation and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    The Harms of Self-Help Discourse · 2026 · DOI

  • Future efforts should focus on strengthening policies that support women’s participation in STEM education and careers while addressing structural barriers that hinder their progress. Technological advancements and digital transformation are creating new opportunities for women researchers across various disciplines.

    Women in Scientific Research, Innovation, and Technology · 2026 · DOI

  • The literature has not fully considered the implications of fixed high evidential standards for the distribution of epistemic power. The gap between the production of findings for data-rich versus data-poor regions has not been adequately addressed. The need for a justice-based argument against fixed high evidential standards has not been met.

    Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of consideration of disability in the context of epistemic reparations. The need to address the epistemic wrongs incurred by disabled people.

    Epistemic reparations and disability · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the right to be known, particularly in terms of its interpretation and implications. The paper highlights the need for an alternative formulation of the right to be known that addresses the concerns of over-demandingness. The paper recognizes the importance of collective epistemology in addressing the challenges of the right to be known.

    The right to be known: its scope, demands, and the role of individuals and collectives · 2026 · DOI

  • While I do not claim to have fully demonstrated this here, the link between perceptual categorization and social frameworks warrants further investigation and may shed new light on debates in social ontology. It remains debated whether emotion categories can be perceived as well as what might constitute the perception of such categories (Barrett, 2012).

    Intersectionality in perception · 2026 · DOI

  • The challenge of navigating the coping double bind, where individuals must choose between personal well-being and fighting for structural change. The difficulty of reconciling the need for individual well-being with the need for collective action and social transformation. The complexity of understanding the relation between coping and affective injustice.

    Coping in an Unjust World: Affective Injustice and Liberatory Coping · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of philosophical attention to coping and its attendant literature. The need for a reconceptualization of the double bind through the lens of coping. The gap in understanding the relation between coping and affective injustice.

    Coping in an Unjust World: Affective Injustice and Liberatory Coping · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap is the lack of a clear understanding of how self-identification relates to group membership. The gap is also the lack of a clear understanding of what kind of entitlement self-identification secures. The paper argues that prior work has not fully addressed these questions.

    The Standing of Self-Identity · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need to explore how categorial thought can be used constructively within a decolonial context.

    Lugones with Kant: Categories, Gender, Colonialism · 2026 · DOI

  • Our analysis addresses three gaps in the literature: (1) it clarifies the relationship between epistemic injustice and (structural) discrimination; (2) it highlights how epistemic injustices contribute to discrimination against disabled people; and (3) it allows us to have a better grasp of what structural discrimination is and how it differs from its direct and indirect counterparts.

    Structural discrimination through ignorance: epistemic injustice, (social) norms, and disability · 2026 · DOI

  • The need for a specific approach to addressing the challenges posed by the influence of science on political and social affairs. The lack of a research approach that integrates multiple levels of reflection and combines different fields of study. The insufficient protection of scientific knowledge against unfounded assaults.

    Wissenschaftsreflexion: What is it? What is the need for it? Contemporary challenges for studies in science · 2025 · DOI

  • The study faces the challenge of using self-selected data from Project Implicit, which may not be representative of the population. It also addresses the criticism that gender equality means gender neutrality, highlighting the need to distinguish between these concepts. The study must contend with the complexity of measuring implicit and explicit gender stereotypes and their association with attitudes toward science.

    Gender-essentialist beliefs and the gender gap in STEM: Evidence on the gender-essentialism theory · 2025 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in current accounts of epistemic injustice, which cannot adequately explain cases of pain dismissal. The paper argues that the normalization of fibroid pain in Black women and of menstrual pain more broadly is a distinct form of epistemic injustice. The paper shows that the dismissal of pain utterances is not captured by existing forms of epistemic injustice.

    Pain Dismissal and the Limits of Epistemic Injustice · 2025 · DOI

  • The decimation of democratic institutional processes that undergird state-sponsored scientific research is a significant threat. The importance of federal support for research is highlighted.

    Merton Redux: Re-Confronting the Norms of Science in Democracy · 2026 · DOI

  • The existing scholarship on reparations for sexual violence does not fully address the epistemic harms caused by sexual violence. The current approaches to reparations focus on individual redress rather than collective responsibility and structural change.

    The case for epistemic reparations for sexual violence · 2026 · DOI

  • The dominant conception of gender is inadequate. Trans-supportive political movements have often appealed to gender identity, which is usually understood as an inner sense of one's gender, but this notion is problematic.

    Math Proofs, Gender Proofs · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the philosophical literature on science communication regarding the form of trespassing that occurs when scientists draw on non-epistemic sources of authority.

    Building Public Trust in Science: A Team Task · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies the challenge of questioning the rhetoric of science as useful, relevant, and logical. The collection of essays highlights the challenge of navigating the dynamic relationship between crisis and care. The paper notes the challenge of addressing the gap in understanding the complex relationship between science and politics.

    Review/Recenzja: Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli (Eds.). 2025. Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy. Palgrave Macmillan · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the experiences of Latines in STEM. The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the importance of family and community for Latines in STEM.

    “It’s For My Science Daughters”: A Portrait of Dr. Leticia Márquez-Magaña’s [Counter]Storied Legacies for Latinas and STEM · 2026 · DOI

  • Testing the association between national performance and self-assessment contexts on gender differences in students' aspirations for a STEM career. Investigating the mechanisms that influence the factors of interest in the gender equality paradox.

    Gender-essentialist beliefs and the gender gap in STEM: Evidence on the gender-essentialism theory · 2025 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) The lack of an account of what values are appropriate for use in science policy advising (“Science policy advising & political legitimacy: a feminist public reason account”, 2026); (2) The paper suggests that future research could further interrogate the roots of science as unquestionable ontological knowledge (“Review/Recenzja: Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli (Eds.). 2025. Scientists,…”, 2026); (3) The lack of consideration of disability in the context of epistemic reparations (“Epistemic reparations and disability”, 2026); (4) The lack of philosophical attention to coping and its attendant literature (“Coping in an Unjust World: Affective Injustice and Liberatory Coping”, 2026); (5) The gap is the lack of a clear understanding of how self-identification relates to group membership (“The Standing of Self-Identity”, 2026). 179 gap statements have been mined from Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 1,705 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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