“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic detail page. EACH YEAR, to mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Economist publishes the glass-ceiling index. It compares ...