The Experiences of LGBTQ Americans Today
How lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults view Obergefell’s impact on social acceptance for LGBTQ people, 10 years after the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
How lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults view Obergefell’s impact on social acceptance for LGBTQ people, 10 years after the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
Key trends and data on women in top U.S. political, business and higher education positions.
During the 2021-22 school year, 83% of the country’s public, private and charter school students in pre-K through 12th grade attended traditional public schools.
The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 160 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted Jan. 8-19, 2025, among a sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) U.S. adults. A total of […]
Kamala Harris’ election represented an advance in the progress Black Americans have made in recent decades in political leadership.
The survey asked about possible reasons why there are more men than women in high political offices. Of the eight reasons we asked about, only one – women having to do more to prove themselves than men – is seen as a major reason by a majority of Americans (54%). More than four-in-ten point to […]
Americans are more pessimistic than optimistic about the institution of marriage and the family. At the same time, the public is fairly accepting of diverse family arrangements, though some are seen as more acceptable than others.
One-in-five adults say they took on leadership roles when growing up in their school or community extremely often or often, while 35% say they did so sometimes.
Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and report different experiences at school, though they have many of the same goals in life.
Today, the average annual earnings of older workers lag behind those of younger workers, but the gap is nowhere near what it once was. In 1964, the average annual earnings of workers ages 65 and older were 19% of the average earnings of workers ages 25 to 64: $5,200 vs. $26,900, respectively. (Figures in this […]
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