About one out of every five women who earned a doctorate in 2025 paid for their degrees primarily from their own funds or savings. For men who earned doctorates that year, 11.1 percent used their own funds or savings as the primary source for paying for their education.
Throughout the past two decades, girls continue to be overrepresented in AP courses in languages, humanities, and the arts, while boys are overrepresented in AP STEM courses. These participation gaps tend to align with gender gaps among top-performing students, but this varies widely by subject.
“By making managerial performance attributable, comparable, and visible, firm structure can influence who advances to the highest levels of leadership. For women managers, divisionalized structures may provide a clearer path to CEO promotion because they make accomplishments harder to overlook and easier to evaluate,” the study authors write.
While use of AI chatbots has increased among all U.S. adults over the past two years, women saw a steeper increase. Today, men and women are about equally likely to say they use AI chatbots. However, women remain more skeptical about the technology's future.
Across a large sample of faculty at nearly 300 universities, women were more than twice as likely as men to report prior experiences of devaluation at work. Among respondents who had experienced devaluation, women were more likely than men to say devaluation was tied to their gender, race, age, or parenthood status.
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.
