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 2023, 25 percent of U.S. adults believed it was very likely that a woman would be elected president of the United States at some point in their lifetime. Now, that share has dropped to 17 percent, while the share of American adults who believe it will never happen in their lifetime has jumped to 37 percent.
“While attitudes improved sharply between 1965 and 2006, the years since have produced a gap in how men and women experience evaluation, standards, and opportunity,” the authors write. “The divergence indicates progress on the surface, but deterioration underneath.”
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.
“Maternal and fetal health is influenced not only by medical care but also by the broader social and political environment,” said lead author Kristina Joy Chua of the University of Notre Dame. “And politics definitely plays a significant role in shaping perinatal health.”
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.”
Past-month alcohol use among pregnant women rose from 9 percent in 2011–2012 to a peak of 15 percent in 2021–2022, according to new study from scholars at Columbia University and the University of California, San Diego.
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 a new study, participants often failed to notice the absence of women in a group of neurosurgeons, as well as the absence of men in a group of teachers.
A new study on workplace friendship has found women's networks prioritize friendship and contribute to organizational stability, while men's networks prioritize individual benefit.
