The National Institutes of Health's series of grant cancellations in 2025 disproportionately impacted women scientists compared to their male peers. Although women lost less money overall, they had more active resources unspent at the time of cancellation, leading to a great portion of unrealized scientific output, particularly among women in early-career positions.
According to scholars at the University of Ottawa in Canada, the gender gap in publication output and research impact in economics and political science is shrinking among junior faculty. However, significant gaps persist among full professors.
According to a new study, startups in states with legislation that weaken or nullify non-disclosure agreements restricting discussions of sexual harassment hired less women after those laws went into effect.
As of 2024, women working full-time earn 81 cents for every one dollar earned by men. Over a 40-year career, this gap equates to $542,800 in lost wages for full-time working women. Women earn less per dollar compared to their male counterparts in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Scholars at New York University Abu Dhabi have argued that widespread generalizations about gender differences in competitiveness and risk tolerance are flawed as prior research has historically focused on White participants.
A new report from the International Bar Association reveals that women from around the world who are working in the legal profession are facing persistent structural barriers to senior leadership, widespread burnout, and ongoing gender inequality in the workplace.
For the second year in a row, Danielle Keats Citron of the University of Virginia School of Law, is the country's top-cited legal scholar. Six other women are included among the top 10 most-cited law professors — more than double the number of the past two years.
Although women are the majority of undergradaute students (55 percent), they are underrepresented among NCAA varsity student-athletes (43 percent). Women are also less than half of all coaches for women's collegiate athletic teams.
A new study from scholars at the University of Richmond and New York University has examined how children conform to gender norms. The study reveals that the roots of gender conformity appear in children as young as five years old.
After the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion, there was a significant decline in applications to medical residency programs in states that enacted new abortion restrictions compared to states that did not.
Currently, women are the head of government in 13 UN member countries. Ten of these women are their country's first female leader. Only 63 of the 193 UN member countries have been led by a woman.
In 2024, 7.9 million women across the EU worked as scientists and engineers, up from 5.2 million women in 2014 and 3.4 million women in 2008. Across all economic activities, women represented 40.5 percent of scientists and engineers in the EU workforce in 2024.Â
