  Gender equity remains a major issue facing the field of planetary science,
and there is broad interest in addressing gender disparities within space
science and related disciplines. Many studies of these topics have been
performed by professional planetary scientists who are relatively unfamiliar
with research in fields such as gender studies and sociology. As a result, they
adopt a normative view of gender as a binary choice of 'male' or 'female,'
leaving planetary scientists whose genders do not fit within that model out of
such research entirely. Reductive frameworks of gender and an overemphasis on
quantification as an indicator of gendered phenomena are harmful to people of
marginalized genders, especially those who live at the intersections of
multiple axes of marginalization such as race, disability, and socioeconomic
status. In order for the planetary science community to best serve its
marginalized members as we move into the next decade, a new paradigm must be
established. This paper aims to address the future of gender equity in
planetary science by recommending better survey practices and institutional
policies based on a more profound approach to gender.
