Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To see how gender roles are changing, look to the workforce. Young women are now working at higher rates than ever, pursuing ...

Many women are choosing flexible work arrangements like freelancing and gig work to balance career and family. Traditional employment data may not accurately reflect the number of women engaged in ...

Women have made significant gains in the workplace over the past two decades, but one segment of female workers has been left behind: those without a college degree. New research shows a growing ...

A 2025 study finds that when women and men both use AI to produce identical work product, the women are viewed as less competent than the men. This reflects a broader pattern of gender bias that ...

Despite leading in education and workforce participation, Black women continue to lag in pay, wealth, and retirement security ...

Why is this happening? Technology educator Avery Swartz told Canadian news outlet CTV News that she thinks women take less risks in the workplace because “statistically, they are more likely to be ...

Research finds that all those extra hours of unpaid labor at home are quietly shaping who gets promoted or left behind at ...

This year, the number of mothers with young children exiting the U.S. labor market saw the sharpest January-to-June decline in more than four decades. That isn’t a coincidence—and it isn’t a lack of ...

You may have heard the expression, “Behind every successful man is a strong woman.” Over the years, there have been many versions of this expression, which ...

NPR's Kathryn Fink and Jordan Marie Smith talk about why Broadcast News still resonates in conversations about women and ambition. Many people have role models growing up. One of mine was Holly Hunter ...