Gender & LGBTQ

For women, postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand. Not only are highly-educated women more likely to have kids, they are also having bigger families than in the past.

For many, being transgender is a core part of their overall identity, even if they may not widely share this fact about themselves with many people in their lives.

Today, no more than about one-in-five Democratic voters see a good chance of voting for any other Democrat.

Today's working fathers are just as likely as working mothers to say that finding the right balance between their job and their family life is a challenge.

A new Indiana religious freedom law has sparked national debate. Some say it strengthens protection of religious liberty, while others say it could provide legal cover for businesses to discriminate. The U.S. public is divided over these types of issues.

Our research suggests the issue continues to resonate with many working moms.

Four-in-ten Americans said being gay or lesbian is "just the way some choose to live," while a similar share said that "people are born gay or lesbian."

Compared with gay men and lesbians, bisexuals have a different perspective on their sexual orientation and a distinct set of experiences, a Pew Research survey found.

Nearly all LGBT Americans support same-sex marriage, but enthusiasm for this new legal change now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court isn't as uniform as one might think.

Here's a rundown of the Supreme Court's busy docket, which includes cases on the ACA's contraception mandate, religion in the workplace, same-sex marriage and the death penalty.