“Meiosis is not gender neutral”

Root Gorelick’s title for his 2012 BioScience article exposes the nearly universal bias in how we describe and illustrate meiosis.  “[T]extbooks beautifully describe meiosis in males and meiosis in isogamous taxa, in which there is only one size of gametes. But these textbooks fail to describe meiosis in females in anisogamic taxa, in which there are two different sizes of gametes”.  A quick search on Google images confirms his point.  As the three images below from Cambell, Springer, and Wiki exemplify.

Only if you search for ‘female meiosis’ do you get the female perspective.  Even then male meiosis is may be included without comment as this ‘slide player’ image illustrates.