Of the 50 universities in the United States that awarded the most doctorates in 2025, only 11 universities awarded more doctorates to women than to men.
Among the top 10 journals by total first authorships, only two increased their representation of female first authors by more than four percentage points over the past decade and only four had women make up at least one-third of first authors in 2025.
A new survey from the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Newhouse School at Syracuse University has found a decline in the overall representation of women working in television newsrooms across the country. Declines were particularly sharp in leadership representation.
In 2025, 19,655 American women earned research doctorates, an all-time high. But there was a wide gender disparity in doctoral awards in specific disciplines. Less than one third of all doctorates in mathematics, engineering, and computer science were awarded to women.
Among undergraduate award recipients in the 2024–2025 academic year, women's median time to degree was faster than men's for bachelor's degree recipients. However, men had a faster median time to degree at the associate degree and certificate levels.
According to a new report drawing from data from the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment, girls' average reading score was higher than boys' average reading score in 89 of the 90 analyzed education systems around the world.
“Some people may think of gender representation as mostly symbolic — that it’s simply nice for women to see themselves represented in a field,” said Emory University's Stella Lourenco. “What we found is that gender representation is more consequential. It is perhaps a primary reason women decide whether to enter a particular occupation in the first place.”
In a review of prior clinical studies, a team of scholars from the University of St. Andrews observed a consistent trend: women were less likely than men with similar clinical characteristics to receive invasive management, such as surgeries, organ transplants, or strong pain medications.
Globally, women's postsecondary enrollment is 12 percent higher than men's enrollment. In the United States, women's higher education enrollment rate is 36 percent more than the rate for men.
In 2025, the median income level for family households headed by a single woman in the United States was 73.9 percent of the median income for family households headed by a single man.
In 2023, 25 percent of U.S. adults believed it was very likely that a woman would be elected president of the United States at some point in their lifetime. Now, that share has dropped to 17 percent, while the share of American adults who believe it will never happen in their lifetime has jumped to 37 percent.
