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studied in a recent analysis, while women are underrepresented relative to their actual participation rates in those jobs. When women appear, they appear lower in search results than men. ">
Men are overrepresented in online image search results for popular jobs. Women appear lower on the page than men in many of these searches.
Men are overrepresented in online image search results across a majority of 105 jobs studied in a recent analysis, while women are underrepresented relative to their actual participation rates in those jobs. When women appear, they appear lower in search results than men.
Christmas, a holiday rooted in holy tradition, has become a cultural phenomenon celebrated by the religious and nonreligious alike. An overwhelming majority of Americans – including 85% of religious “nones” – said in a 2017 Pew Research Center survey that they celebrate the holiday.
Most U.S. adults believe the religious aspects of the holiday are emphasized less now than in the past, and relatively few are bothered by this trend, the survey found. A declining majority believes religious displays such as nativity scenes should be allowed on government property. And a growing share says it does not matter to them whether they are greeted with “merry Christmas” or a less-religious greeting like “happy holidays” or “season’s greetings” in stores.
make up nearly a quarter of its voting membership – the highest percentage in U.S. history. Women will account for 38% of all House Democrats and 36% of Senate Democrats, compared with 8% of House Republicans and 15% of Senate Republicans.">
When the 116th Congress convenes, women will make up nearly a quarter of both chambers – the highest percentage in U.S. history.
When the 116th Congress convenes next month, women will make up nearly a quarter of its voting membership – the highest percentage in U.S. history. Women will account for 38% of all House Democrats and 36% of Senate Democrats, compared with 8% of House Republicans and 15% of Senate Republicans.
Voters approached the midterms with concerns about the voting process and whether election systems might be hacked. After the election, however, most say voting was “very easy” and confidence in election security has increased.
About three-in-ten U.S. adults (29%) have a child younger than 18 at home, and 12% of these parents provide unpaid care for an adult as well. All told, these multigenerational caregivers provide more than two and a half hours of unpaid care a day, on average, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
The amount of time parents spend on child care has been on the rise for decades in the United States. Mothers now spend 40% more time with their kids than they did in the mid-1960s, and the amount of time spent by fathers has tripled during that span. All told, parents – both those who are multigenerational caregivers and those who are not – now spend just over an hour and a half a day on child care. Parents who are multigenerational caregivers, meanwhile, spend just over an hour a day performing adult care in addition to the time spent caring for their children.
Men are overrepresented in online image search results for popular jobs. Women appear lower on the page than men in many of these searches.
Online media organizations, social media sites and individuals add vast quantities of images to the web each day. These images can then appear in search engines as users look for pictures representing common phrases or topics. Because the way that men and women are represented in these online search results might be connected to the way people understand gender and society, some academic researchers have specifically focused on the ways women and men are depicted in the workplace in online images.
A new Pew Research Center study extends this line of research by using a computational method – machine vision to analyze a broad sample of images from Google Image Search that depict men and women working common jobs, and then comparing those results with real-world data about the gender composition of the U.S. workforce. The study finds that the share of each gender pictured varies widely across the spectrum of careers tested. But in the majority of jobs examined, women are somewhat underrepresented in online images relative to their actual participation rates in those jobs in the United States, based on 2017 Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Across all individuals shown in the search results, men appear 60% of the time. And, when women appear, they appear lower in the search results than men.
After bottoming out in 2011, incomes are rising for American households – and those headed by a Millennial now earn more than young adult households did at nearly any time in the past 50 years. The growth in young adult household incomes has been driven in part by Millennial women working and earning more.
Women in Millennial households worked more in 2017 than their counterparts in young adult households did in 2000. Among those who were employed, 78% of women in Millennial households in 2017 worked at least 50 weeks of the year. In 2000, by comparison, 72% of women workers in households headed by 22- to 37-year-olds worked as long.
Aside from working more, women in young adult households are being paid more. The median earnings of women working full time for a full year (in households headed by people ages 22 to 37) rose from $37,100 in 2000 to $39,000 in 2017.
Rural Americans are more likely than people in urban and suburban areas to say access to good doctors and hospitals is a major problem in their community. One possible factor in this view is that getting to a hospital is a longer trip – both in distance and time – for people in rural areas than for those in suburbs and cities.
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Americans are becoming less reliant on physical currency. Roughly three-in-ten U.S. adults (29%) say they make no purchases using cash during a typical week, up from 24% in 2015. High-income adults are the most likely to say this.
Pew Research Center takes the pulse of Americans and people around the world on a host of issues every year. We explore public opinion on topics ranging from foreign policy to cyberbullying, as well as demographic trends, such as the emergence of the post-Millennial generation and changes in the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Here are 18 of this year’s standout findings, taken from our analyses over the past year.
1. Post-Millennials – today’s 6- to 21-year-olds, also known as Generation Z – are on track to be the most racially and ethnically diverse generation yet. A bare majority of post-Millennials are non-Hispanic white (52%), while a quarter are Hispanic. And while most post-Millennials are still pursuing their K-12 education, the oldest members of this generation are enrolling in college at a significantly higher rate than Millennials were at a comparable age.
The American public’s leading long-range foreign policy goals for the United States are focused on security, including economic security. About seven-in-ten (72%) say that taking measures to protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks should be a top priority for the country, while about as many (71%) say the same about protecting the jobs of American workers.
Two-thirds (66%) say preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) should be a top long-range priority for the United States.
With only a handful of exceptions, including stopping the spread of WMD, there are sizable differences between Republicans and Democrats on 26 foreign policy goals.
Close to half of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 say they are on the internet “almost constantly,” and more than nine-in-ten are social media users. These highly plugged-in youth, however, are just as likely as their less-connected peers to socialize regularly with their friends in person. In fact, when taking into account both online and offline interactions, highly connected teens report more contact with their friends compared with other teens.
Americans continue to prefer watching the news rather than reading or listening to it, and their viewing loyalties have yet to migrate fully to the web. Instead, the majority of U.S. adults who prefer to watch the news opt for television as their primary news platform, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
In addition to exploring the preferred format for news consumption, the study also measured which platform people preferred most for their news: print, television, the internet or radio. Just over four-in-ten U.S. adults (44%) prefer TV, compared with about a third (34%) who prefer the web, 14% who prefer radio and 7% who prefer print. The only meaningful shifts since 2016 are a small increase in online and decrease in print news consumption.
There were 10.7 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2016, representing 3.3% of the total U.S. population that year. The 2016 unauthorized immigrant total is a 13% decline from the peak of 12.2 million in 2007, when this group was 4% of the U.S. population.
The number of Mexican unauthorized immigrants declined since 2007, but the total from other nations changed little. Mexicans made up half of all unauthorized immigrants in 2016, according to Pew Research Center’s estimate, compared with 57% in 2007. Their numbers (and share of the total) have been declining in recent years: There were 5.4 million Mexican unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2016, down from 6.9 million in 2007.
Meanwhile, the total from other nations, 5.2 million in 2016, remained about the same as in 2007, when it was 5.3 million. The number of unauthorized immigrants has grown since 2007 only from one birth region: Central America, from 1.5 million that year to nearly 1.9 million in 2016. This growth was fueled mainly by immigrants from the Northern Triangle nations of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The totals also went down over the 2007-2016 period from South America and the combined region of Europe plus Canada. The remaining regions (the Caribbean, Asia, Middle East-North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world) did not change significantly in that time.
studied in a recent analysis, while women are underrepresented relative to their actual participation rates in those jobs. When women appear, they appear lower in search results than men.
make up nearly a quarter of its voting membership – the highest percentage in U.S. history. Women will account for 38% of all House Democrats and 36% of Senate Democrats, compared with 8% of House Republicans and 15% of Senate Republicans.">
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