Comments on: Designing a Better Drop-Down Menu for Gender

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By: Sonia

Sonia — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:42:29 +0000

This was hugely helpful for me, thank you. I’ve been concerned about this issue in my research work for a while now but haven’t been sure how to approach it. What’s your opinion about simply having a free text box for people to complete with their preferred gender? I’m preparing a paper-based survey right now and that was the best option I could come up with.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:03:07 +0000

Great Information. I agree with the above poster about the “it’s complicated” option!

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By: Quora

Quora — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:54:34 +0000

Should “other” be included as a choice on an web based form that asks the persons gender?…

As Kae Klepitskaya says, limiting gender choices to “male” and “female” leaves out a lot of people. Providing an “other” option isn’t ideal either, though: it also reinforces the notion that male and female are normal and everything else can be …

By: evgelen

evgelen — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:57:34 +0000

great article. thank you for your hard work

By: Dopp Juice » Blog Archive » “Gender is a Text Field” (Diaspora, backstory, and context)

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:23:13 +0000

[...] followed up on that workshop by writing another post called “Designing a Better Drop-Down Menu for Gender,” which listed all the ideas I thought could reasonably improve the data collection process, [...]

By: Transfinite

Transfinite — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:21:28 +0000

Thanks for linking me to this! It was really interesting.

(One thing I just noticed: This comment form’s tab order is broken somehow. When I press tab, I go up to the top of the page instead of to the “Submit Comment” button.)

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:00:12 +0000

I think it is good that we change the drop down menu.. I think it'll make a huge difference for customers and ultimately can be nothing but good! -Amy Elements Papers

By: jon

jon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:36:31 +0000

Great points — and loved the follow-on post too.

For a survey that Qworky did recently, we decided to implement gender as multiple choice check boxes, including options of male, female, transgender, genderqueer, and decline-to-state. [Now that I've read this post, I'd probably add an "it's complicated" option as well.]

It’s not perfect, but seems to strike a good balance between inclusiveness and data analysis.

jon