Although women are the majority of undergradaute students (55 percent), they are underrepresented among NCAA varsity student-athletes (43 percent). Women are also less than half of all coaches for women's collegiate athletic teams.
Currently, women are the head of government in 13 UN member countries. Ten of these women are their country's first female leader. Only 63 of the 193 UN member countries have been led by a woman.
In 2024, 7.9 million women across the EU worked as scientists and engineers, up from 5.2 million women in 2014 and 3.4 million women in 2008. Across all economic activities, women represented 40.5 percent of scientists and engineers in the EU workforce in 2024.
Across four studies, new research led by Cornell University's Alice Lee, found women consistently show a stronger preference for postings with narrower salary ranges compared to men. The research revealed a similar pattern within the labor market itself; industries with wider posted salary ranges have a lower representation of women in the workforce.
Women made up 8.1 percent of all workplace fatalities in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023. But women accounted for 12.8 percent of homicides or suicides at work in 2024.
In 2025, 9.6 percent of women workers and 10.4 percent of male workers were members of labor unions. Women union members earned, on average, 87.2 percent of the average wages of male union members.
“While efforts to advance gender equality in science have gained ground, progress remains uneven,” the authors write. “The barriers documented in this report are not limited to institutional procedures. They reflect deeper patterns: who is seen, supported and recognized, and whose contributions are valued.”
According to the research team, their findings suggest for every 50 papers published by a woman, she will have spent on average 350-750 days longer than her male peers waiting for editorial decisions and/or revising her manuscripts.
In a survey of some 3,000 Canadians and Americans, the authors found women participants were more likely to be generally "risk-averse" than men, and 11 percent more likely to say AI's risks outweigh its benefits.
A new study from scholars in Finland has discovered a gender equality paradox, in which countries that have achieved gender equality in broad domains of life have ever wider differences between girls and boys' strengths in reading and STEM, respectively.
The University of Southern California has released new data on women's representation among directors of the top-grossing films in the United States. In 2025, only 8.1 percent of the 100 top-performing movies were directed by women, which is a seven-year low for top-performing women directors.
In both countries with and without gender parity among high-achieving students, women are significantly less likely to choose to major in STEM, suggesting policies aimed at narrowing gaps in academic performance are not enough to close disparities in STEM representation.
