For decades, research has documented women's lower levels of trust in scientific institutions compared to men. According to a new study, this may be largely due to women's persistent underrepresentation in the STEM workforce.
Although both men and women experience similar declines in their financial literacy as they age, a persistent gender gap in financial literacy remains among older adults. However, since women tend to live longer than men, older women are most likely to benefit from efforts to improve financial literacy.
Women are significantly underrepresented among U.S. patented-inventors, representing just 13 percent of all U.S. inventors from 1976 to 2021. Women inventors are significantly more likely to work at universities than in government agencies or private organizations, suggesting the academic environment is the most conducive to women inventors' success.
Despite significant progress over the past two decades, women attorneys remain underrepresented as college and university presidents, provosts, and law school deans compared to their male peers. Some three-quarters of current and former women attorneys in academic leadership say they have encountered gender bias in the workplace.
“Especially since the fall of 2021, female college students have been passing fewer classes and experiencing slower credit accumulation compared to female college students before the pandemic,” said Dr. Dora Gicheva of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “And this gap is relatively greater than the one we see for male college students.”
Over the past five decades, women's total representation among authors published in the Journal of Biomechanics has increased from 5.5 percent in 1970 to 26.5 percent in 2020, with significant progress made in first and last author representation.
Since 2013, most engineering disciplines have narrowed the gender pay gap between men and women. The smallest gap is in the field of mechanical engineering, where women earn 96 cents for every 1 dollar earned by their male peers. However, environmental engineering - the discipline where women are most represented - has widened its gender pay gap by 1 percent.
Overall, total applications from women to MBA programs around the world increased by 6 percent over the past year. Full-time, two-year MBA programs and online MBA programs experienced the most growth, rising 9 percent and 7 percent, respectively, in 2025.
Historically, women have been underrepresented in clinical trial participation, leading to a lack of evidence for making informed decisions on women's health. However, a new study has found women principal investigators are more likely to enroll women participants, suggesting increasing gender diversity among biomedical scientists could improve the gap in trial participation.
Scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered gender disparities in news media coverage of scientific research, with women-led papers being significantly less likely to be cited by the media. When women's research is cited, it is more likely to be featured by local outlets and liberal-leaning outlets.
A new study has found women are significantly underrepresented among first and last authors in top-cited medical imaging articles. In the United States, women's representation in this area has remained virtually unchanged since 2013.
Men were 50 percent more likely than women to score in the 1400-1600 range, scores typically required for admission to the nation’s most selective colleges and universities.
