How might the gender of an anthropological fieldworker bias the information gathered?

The only thing I can think of is the difference in how men and women experience empathy... help please?:confused:

It would not, if they were professional and followed procedures personal opinions would not be reflected in any study

I cannot see where a man or woman would make any difference in gathering evidence, possibly in drawing the conclusion; like said above as long as proper procedures are followed there should be no difference.

Yeah... not according to my Cultural Anthropology instructor. He says it's inevitable for the gender of the ethnographer to affect information gathered... The only thing that I can think of is if a woman is very feminine or if a man is very masculine it could have some sort of affect... I just don't know though.

Ethnography is a completely different subject. (Not really, it just made me think deeper)

Trough these methods "gathering evidence" usually involves a participant or a viewer of a society. If you are a participant you will find that the data will be gender biased, especially in certain societies. No matter where you look you will find that different genders play different roles within a society, some more strongly than others. This fact will cause limits to both male and female participant ethnographers as they have troubles viewing some parts of the other gender's role and little chance of experiencing it. Even if they were able to experience it, they would experience it differently than the other gender because that particular society may respond differently to them.