All Entries in the "Research/Study" Category
McKinsey & Company Report Examines Women’s Progress in the Workplace
Since 2015, the number of women in the C-suite has increased from 17 to 28 percent, and the representation of women at the vice president and senior vice president levels has also improved significantly. But, for every 100 men promoted from entry-level positions to manager, 87 women were promoted.
Women in Pediatrics Have Made Substantial Progress in Academic Publishing
From 2001 to 2022, 4,426 original research articles were studied. The results showed an increase in the proportion of women as first authors (23.7%), senior authors (22.8%), and as editorial board members (15.9%) over the 5 one-year time periods studied between 2001 and 2022.
Report Shows That Women Injured While in the Military Are Having a Very Tough Time in Civilian Life
A new study by the Wounded Warriors Project finds that women veterans, particularly those who were injured during their service, are more likely to present with moderate to severe symptoms of depression, PTSD, and anxiety than male warriors.
Women Make Slight Gains in Closing the Income Gap With Men
The median income of households headed by a single woman in the United States in 2022 was $56,030. For households headed by a single man in 2022, the median income figure was $73,630. For single women living alone, the median income in 2022 was $40,200. For single men living alone, the median income was $51,930.
There Is a Significant Disparity in the Number of Unmarried Men and Women in the United States
A new Census Bureau study finds that in 2019 there were 89.8 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women in the United States. The unmarried population includes people age 18 and over who were never married, widowed or divorced, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Women Judges Are Cited Less Often Than Their Male Peers
After analyzing out-of-circuit citations to a sample of more than 2,000 published federal appellate decisions from 2009 to 2016, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of Louisville, the University of Georgia, and Brigham Young University in Utah found that majority opinions written by female judges receive significantly fewer subsequent citations from other courts than those by men.
The Persisting Gender Gap in Poverty Rates in the United States
Overall, there were more than 20 million American women and girls who were living below the poverty level in 2022. In 2022, 12.5 percent of all women and girls in the United States lived in poverty compared to 10.5 percent of men.
Study Finds Women Ask for Raises and Promotions At Similar or Higher Rates Than Men
A new study by women scholars at the University of California, Berkeley and Vanderbilt University in Nashville debunks the gender pay gap myth that “women don’t ask for raises.” The study found that women attempt salary negotiations as much or more than men do, but are more likely to be rejected.
Study Examines Data on Women’s Decisions on Changing Their Last Names After Marriage
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that today in America nearly eight of every 10 women who get married take their husband’s last name. But 26 percent of married women with a postgraduate degree kept their last name compared with 13 percent of those with a bachelor’s degree.
Nearly Four-Fifths of the Graduates Who Hold the 20 Highest-Paying Bachelor’s Degrees Are Men
A new study by Bankrate finds that nearly 4 in 5 (78 percent) of those who hold the 20 most lucrative bachelor’s degrees are men, while only 22 percent are women. Of the 20 most common majors for women, only those with a nursing degree earn a median salary higher than $60,000.
Need an Operation? Might Be Better to Choose a Woman Surgeon
Among the 1,165 ,711 patients studied, 151,054 were treated by a female and 1,014,657 by a male surgeon. Overall, 2.4 percent of all patients who had been operated on by a man died within one year after surgery, compared to 1.6 percent of patients who had a woman surgeon.
Report Finds Women Face Blatant Sexism in Army Special Forces
In 2015, all combat positions in the Army were opened to women. Today, there are about, 2,300 women in Army special forces units, about 8 percent of the total. Some 40 percent of all women in the special forces reported in a survey they had been impacted by gender bias. Later focus groups hinted that the percentage was probably much higher.
How Women Lose Out in the Training of New Inventors
A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that female Ph.D.s have a 21 percent lower likelihood of being matched with advisors who are top inventors than male Ph.D.s, and even when matched, are approximately 17 percent less likely than their male Ph.D. counterparts to become new inventors.
New Data on Gender-Affirming Surgery in the United States
The study found that changes in federal and state laws mandating coverage of gender-affirming surgery may have led to an increase in the number of annual cases. The number of gender affirming surgeries in the United States increased from 4,552 in 2016 to 12,818 in 2020, nearly a threefold increase.
CDC Survey Finds That 20 Percent of Women Were Mistreated During Maternity Care
A new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that 20 percent of women reported experiences of mistreatment during maternity care. For Black mothers, 30 percent said they had been mistreated during maternity care.
Differences in Substance Use by Men and Women College Students
College women were more likely than college men to use marijuana or consume alcohol over the 30 days prior to the survey. But college men were more likely than college women to be heavy drinkers, smoke cigarettes, and use hallucinogens and cocaine.
New Study Examines Disparities in Maternal Mortality by State
In 2019, the national maternal mortality ratio for all women in the U.S. was 32.1 per 100,000 live births. In Arizona, New Jersey, New York, and Georgia, each state had a maternal mortality ratio greater than 100 for 100,000 live births. This is triple the national average.
The Number of Suicides by Women Is on the Rise
In 2022, 10,191 women committed suicide. Thus, women were 20.6 percent of all suicides. However, there is cause for concern. There was a 3.8 percent increase in the number of women suicides in 2022 compared to a 2.3 percent increase among men. Women attempt suicide more often than men; however, men are four times more likely to die by suicide.
Gender Differences in Attrition Rates for Principals at K-12 Public and Private Schools
Overall, in the 2020-21 academic year women made up 56 percent of all public school principals. At private schools, women made up 62.8 percent of all principals. Men were more likely to not serve as a principal a year later in public schools but women were more likely than men to step down as private school principals.
More Evidence That Women Are Far Less Likely Than Men to Ask Questions in Academic Settings
A new study finds that women attendees of virtual ophthalmology grand rounds sessions were significantly less likely than their male counterparts to ask questions. And the gender gap is large. On average women asked 1.2 questions per session compared to 3.2 questions by men. Men were three times as likely as women to ask the first question.
Why Are Women College Students More Likely Than Their Male Peers to Fall on Stairs?
A new study led by scholars at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, presents somewhat surprising results, showing that young college-age women are among the most likely to suffer injuries from falling on stairs. Among this group, 80 percent of the injuries from falls on stairs occur among women.
University Study Finds a Narrowing of the Gender Gap in Alcohol Related Deaths
Previous research has shown that women are drinking more, engaging in more high-risk drinking, and increasingly developing alcohol-use disorders. But a new study, led by Ibraheem M. Karaye, an assistant professor of population health, and director of the health science program at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, finds a sharp rise in alcohol-related deaths among women.
Gender Differences in Financial Aid Awards
Despite the fact that women were more likely than men to receive grants, on average women received lower amounts. The average grant given to women was $8,900 compared to $9,700 for men. The average loan amounts were nearly equal for men and women students.
Women of Color Are Scarce in STEM Higher Education and the Workforce
A new report from The Education Trust shows that vast disparities in attainment by race, ethnicity, and gender persist in STEM education and employment, thereby limiting access and opportunities for social and economic mobility for some — particularly women and people of color.
The Persisting Gender Gap in Weekly Earnings
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the median weekly earnings of the nation’s 121.5 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,100 in the second quarter of 2023. But there is a persisting gender gap in earnings. Women had median weekly earnings of $993, or 84.1 percent of the $1,181 median for men.
Study Debunks a Commonly Help Belief About Victims of Rape
If a victim freezes or does not attempt to resist during a sexual assault, perpetrators often claim there was passive acquiescence. A new study presents neuroscientific evidence that counters that misconception. Many survivors of sexual assault report ‘freezing’ during an assault. The researchers argue that this is an involuntary response to a threat that can prevent a victim from actively resisting.
Study Finds That Throughout Their Careers Women Continue to Face Age Discrimination
Researchers surveyed 913 women leaders in higher education, faith-based nonprofits, law, and healthcare. They found that there is “no right age” for professional women. The authors conclude that “we found no age was the right age to be a woman leader. There was always an age-based excuse to not take women seriously, to discount their opinions, or to not hire or promote them.”
The Marriage and Divorce Rates of American Women Have Dropped in the Past Decade
In 2021, the U.S. marriage rate was 14.9 marriages in the last year per 1,000 women, down from 16.3 a decade earlier. And the 2021 divorce rate dropped to 6.9 in the last year from 9.7 divorces per 1,000 women in 2011.
Women on Inventor Teams Can Produce Products of Greater Value
A recent study by scholars at Emory University in Atlanta, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Vienna in Austria, challenges a long-held finding in academic literature that the presence of women on company invention teams results in products of lesser value than inventions produced by teams that consist only of men.
Women Are Slower Than Men on the Path From Mentored to Independent Research in the Biomedical Sciences
Researchers examined the percentage of men and women who received National Institute of Health early career awards which included a mentored component over a 10-year period. They then looked at how many of these men and women received R01-equivalent awards (a class of grants that fund specific research projects and provide around $500,000 per year for multiple years) over the next 10-year period. Women trailed men in the transition to the more significant grants.
Simple and Inexpensive Interventions Can Save Women’s Lives in Rural America
Researchers from Indiana University and Ohio State University recruited women from rural Indiana and Ohio who were not up to date on any or all recommended cancer screenings. Some were mailed a DVD and others also received follow-up counseling. Women who got the DVD were twice as likely as women who did not get the DVD to obtain the recommended screenings. Women who got the DVD and then were telephoned by counselors were six times as likely to get the recommended screenings.
Women May Bear the Brunt of Job Losses as a Result of Artificial Intelligence
A new study by researchers at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that women may have a greater likelihood of losing their jobs due to artificial intelligence than men. The analysis finds that eight out of 10 women in the U.S. workforce are in occupations highly exposed to generative AI automation.
The Gender Gap in Rates of Death During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The data shows that in 2019 before the onset of the pandemic, 1,381,015 women died in the United States. In 2020, when the pandemic took hold, 1,613,845 women died. This was an increase of 16.9 percent. The number of death for men in the United States in 2020 increased by 20.1 percent compared to the year before.
Survey Finds Sexual Assaults on College Campuses Are Rarely Reported to the Proper Authorities
A new survey conducted by Vector Solutions, a company that produces sexual violence risk-management training materials for higher educational institutions, finds that only 6 percent of victims of sexual assault notify campus or local police authorities. Some 7 percent reported the assault to a campus administrator and only 3 percent went to an on-campus crisis center.
Women Continue to Face Bias When Seeking Employment in the Tech Industry
A new study by Hired, an online job placement firm based in New York City, finds that women continue to face bias when seeking employment in the tech industry. The survey found that in 38 percent of the jobs posted for tech jobs, only men were sent interview requests for the positions.
