so if we consider gender issues we are basically asking whether men and women have different attitudes towards saving money.

所以如果我们考虑性别问题我们基本上是问是否男性和女性对待存钱的问题上有不同的看法。

“we are basically asking”不是basically用于进行时，而是动词ask用于进行时，basically是副词修饰动词ask。