On average, women biologists in tenure-track and tenure faculty roles at R1 institutions publish less per year than their male colleagues. Women also receive fewer citations, even after controlling for their overall lower publication volume.
In an examination of the exhibition history of more than 65,000 contemporary visual artists, a new study found men are more likely than women to have their work featured in a museum or gallery and men's art is more likely to be sold at an auction than art created by women.
When filing for bankruptcy, women entrepreneurs are more likely than their male counterparts to turn to liquidation rather than attempt a reorganization of their finances and operations, according to a new study from scholars at Rutgers Business School and the University of Delaware.
During the 2025–2026 academic year, women represented 47.5 percent of head coaches of women's sports across 94 colleges and universities in NCAA Division I conferences — a decline of 0.2 percent from the prior academic year and the first decrease in the last 13 years.
Among Americans over the age of 15, women spend more time than men on household activities and caring for other household members, while men spend more time working and on leisurely activities. Among households with a child under age 6, women spend an average of 1.8=12 hours more per day on childcare than men do.
In a new study, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have found that assault injury rates among Californian women in 2022 exceeded those in 2005. Black women of all ages and multiracial women over the age of 65 face the greatest risk of assault.
Until 2018, women biology faculty members in the U.S. were less likely than their male colleagues to be featured on Wikipedia. By 2024, the trend had reversed; women biology professors at top R1 universities are now 25 percent more likely to have a biography on the platform than male biologists in academia.
New research from the Council on Criminal Justice estimates the number of women under correctional control will increase by some 10 percent by 2035, resulting in a 34 percent increase in the costs associated with women's justice system involvement.
Across a series of five experiments, scholars at Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley found that women are consistently perceived as more trustworthy negotiators. Furthermore, this focus on relationship-building in negotiations did not lead to worse economics outcomes for women negotiators compared to their male counterparts.
Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Guttmacher Institute, Pew Research Center has analyzed several decades of information on abortion in the U.S., including the number and rate of abortions over time and the demographics of women who have experienced the procedure.
Compared to the prior year, women's representation declined among lead actors and directors of English-language streaming films released in 2025, while their share of streaming film writers remained unchanged.
Standard heat tolerance tests used in military and athletic populations to determine when someone can return to duty or play were developed based on the male body and are not as effective at measuring tolerance in women, according to new research from the University of Connecticut.
