Research/Study

Study Links State-Level Abortion Bans to Increased Suicidality in Adolescent Girls

Prior to 2022, trends in suicidality among adolescents were similar across U.S. states. However, after the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, these trends diverged, with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among girls increasing in states that had instituted abortion bans and decreasing in states that had not enacted bans.

Do Weight-Loss Drugs Lead to Better Job and Relationship Outcomes for Women?

Compared to women who want to take GLP-1 medication but have not yet started, women who are on GLP-1 drugs are more likely to land a new job and/or get married or move in with a new partner, suggesting there is a significant social stigma impacting people's first impressions of women who are obese.

Women Biology Faculty Publish Less and Are Cited Fewer Times Than Their Male Peers

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.

Research Shows Women Are Vastly Underrepresented Among Working Visual Artists

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.

Study Finds Gender Disparities Within the Bankruptcy System

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.

Report Finds Recent Decline in the Number of Women Head Coaches in Collegiate Athletics

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.

Federal Report Reveals Significant Gender Differences in How Americans Spend Their Day

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.

Study Finds Persistently High Rate of Violence Against Women in California

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.

Women Biology Faculty Are More Likely Than Their Male Peers to Have a Wikipedia Biography

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.

Research Projects Major Increase in the Number and Cost of Women Under Correctional Control

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.

Are Women Better Negotiators Than Men?

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.

Pew Research Center Presents Data on Abortion in the United States

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.