Among the top 10 journals by total first authorships, only two increased their representation of female first authors by more than four percentage points over the past decade and only four had women make up at least one-third of first authors in 2025.
A new survey from the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Newhouse School at Syracuse University has found a decline in the overall representation of women working in television newsrooms across the country. Declines were particularly sharp in leadership representation.
“Some people may think of gender representation as mostly symbolic — that it’s simply nice for women to see themselves represented in a field,” said Emory University's Stella Lourenco. “What we found is that gender representation is more consequential. It is perhaps a primary reason women decide whether to enter a particular occupation in the first place.”
Globally, women's postsecondary enrollment is 12 percent higher than men's enrollment. In the United States, women's higher education enrollment rate is 36 percent more than the rate for men.
In 2025, the median income level for family households headed by a single woman in the United States was 73.9 percent of the median income for family households headed by a single man.
In the 2025–26 television season, women's share of television creators was lower than it was a decade ago. Over the past year, there have been significant declines in the number of women creators, directors, and on-screen characters in television.
In an analysis of two large datasets from the U.S. Department of Education, a new study has found students with below-average grades and test scores in high school are more likely to major in a discipline where their gender is overrepresented.
“Clinical trial leadership influences which research questions are prioritized, which patient populations are included, how endpoints are selected, and how results are interpreted and disseminated,” the authors write. “As such, disparities in leadership may contribute to inequities in the evidence base that informs clinical practice.”
In an analysis of some 810,000 positions across more than 10,000 journals from 15 major scholarly publishers, a new study has found women represent just under one-third of all identified editorial positions around the world.
In 2025, women represented about one-quarter of U.S. AI hires. Overall, AI job postings on LinkedIn have doubled since 2023 and AI roles typically pay double the compensation of non-AI roles, suggesting women do not have the same access as men to one of the country's fasting-growing and highest-paying fields.
“The pay gap is not about some inherent preference in women for jobs that offer lower wages, but rather it is that we actually do pay women’s occupations less because we devalue women,” said Cate Taylor, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
