Table 3.

Overview of the suggested dimensions in the tentative gender ethic protocol

x) Author, Title of the article, Year of publication, Journal, Title of the authors (e.g., midwives, physicians, sociologists, and psychologists) [20]
1. Ethical dilemmas presented in the article (e.g., fairness, needs, distribution, and access to resources) [15, 21]
2. Context of the study (e.g., hospital in DK) (example micro, meso, macro level [17, 27]
3. Methodology (e.g., qualitative/quantitative/observation/document analysis)   (a) Who is researching what? [18, 19]   (b) Empirical material (data)   (c) Preunderstanding of the researchers [28]
4. Theory (e.g., feminist analysis, content analysis, and grounded theory) [6–8, 10, 11]
5. The article’s conclusion about the ethical dilemmas [7, 11, 19]
6. Gender   (a) How is gender conceptualized? [17, 18, 21]   (b) Gender = “sex” (men, women, or not defined as either/or)   (c) Gender as a social category (how human beings act and react), “race,” binary gender   (d) Gender as power relation (Can we find disagreement between, e.g., pregnant women, physicians, or midwives/obstetricians, decision-making and power relations between women and men?)   (e) Gender as invisible
7. Power dynamics in the article   (a) ( e.g., East/West, privileged/unprivileged, discrimination [19]   (b) Acceptable/unacceptable practices? (e.g., not acceptable to leave midwives with a fetus that is still alive) [27]   (c) Who does the article talk about as the “good” professional, who is the “other” = othering, e.g., fat women for deviating from the norm [29]
8. What is not talked about in the article [24, 30]

^*Examples of useful references