Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Home Research Topics Gender & LGBTQ Gender Equality & Discrimination

Gender Equality & Discrimination

report
A composite image of Latinas in various home and work settings.

A Majority of Latinas Feel Pressure To Support Their Families or To Succeed at Work

Half of Latinas say the situation of Hispanic women in the U.S. is better now than it was 10 years ago, and a similar share say the situation will improve in the next 10 years. Their mixed assessments reflect gains in education and at work over the last two decades, but also stalled progress in closing wage gaps with other groups.

Sign up for our weekly newsletter

Fresh data delivery Saturday mornings

All

Gender Equality & Discrimination

Publications

Displaying 1-10 of ? results
Filtering by:
Reset
  • short reads

    Who men and women prefer as their co-workers

    Most Americans say it doesn’t matter if their co-workers are men or women. But for those with a preference, men say they would rather work with men—and women say the same.

  • short reads

    Who’s the boss? In U.S. business, it’s mostly men

    Fewer than 5% of Fortune 1000 companies have women CEOs, and only 10% of women nationally say they’re a boss or top manager. Women are consistently less likely than men to say they want to be a boss someday.

  • short reads

    How Pew Research measured the gender pay gap

    Women earned 84 cents for every $1 made by men in 2012, according to a Pew Research report. But in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that women earned 81 cents to the dollar. The difference is not large, but what gives?

  • short reads

    The odds that you will give birth to a boy or girl depend on where in the world you live

    Research over hundreds of years has consistently found that boys naturally outnumber girls at birth. The speculation is that this is nature’s way of countering the relatively high mortality rates of males, and creating more of a gender balance in the population. While historically, there have been about 105 boys born for every 100 girls […]

  • short reads

    Even in white collar crime, female crooks face a glass ceiling

    A study finds that female white-collar crooks face the same glass ceiling as their law-abiding peers in the corporate world: they typically hold inferior positions to men, rarely are in charge and make significantly less money for their dirty deeds than their male accomplices.

  • short reads

    5 facts about ethnic and gender diversity in U.S. newsrooms

    Last week, San Francisco Bay area television station KTVU broadcast fake names for the pilots of the Asiana Airline flight that crashed on July 6. The error involved ethnic stereotyping, leading the Asian American Journalists Association to assert that these kinds of mistakes “underscored the importance of newsroom diversity” at America’s media outlets. A similar […]

  • short reads

    Men, for the most part, still run newsrooms

    In August, Deborah Turness will become the first woman to head a network news division as she takes the reins as president of NBC News. Nine years ago, she made history in precisely the same way in Great Britain, as she headed ITV News, a BBC rival. But industry data show that men continue to […]

REFINE YOUR SELECTION

DATE
Year
Date Range
Formats
Regions & Countries
Topics
Authors
Research Teams

Copyright 2024 Pew Research Center