By: Bayan Rouhani Scientists consider male rats to be the standard in areas of research. While seemingly innocent, this assumption is just the tip of an iceberg of androcentrism (the prioritization of the male view, experience, interests as the norm) present in science, and how our biological discoveries are skewed in favor of the male body. Kathleen Okruhlik demonstrates in her article “Gender and the Biological Sciences” how the male body is considered to be the standard of