Other Topics

The gender wage gap narrows as women move into high-skill jobs and acquire more education. Women are now in the majority in jobs that draw most heavily on either social or fundamental skills.

Police officers in the United States still make more arrests for marijuana offenses than for any other drug, according to FBI data.

Most U.S. adults know what the Holocaust was and approximately when it happened, but fewer than half can correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Views differ sharply by party and age when it comes to whether forms or online profiles should include gender options other than “man” and “woman.”

Teens in the South express their religion in school more often than teens in other parts of the United States.

U.S. military veterans and their families have consistently had higher standards of living than non-veterans over the past 40 years.

For many veterans who served in combat, their experiences strengthened them personally but made the transition to civilian life difficult.

The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.

Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than white Americans to say it’s acceptable for professional athletes to publicly address political issues.

Despite broadly positive sentiments among Germans about the changes of the past 30 years, views differ in some notable ways in the former West and East.