The Second World War had a sever impact on gender ratios across European countries, particularly in the Soviet Union. While the United States had a balanced gender ratio of one man for every woman, in the Soviet Union the ratio was below 5:4 in favor of women, and in Soviet Russia this figure was closer to 4:3.

As young men were disproportionately killed during the war, this had long-term implications for demographic development, where the generation who would have typically started families in the 1940s was severely depleted in many countries.

In 2024, about 75 percent of women in the United States were registered to vote. This is higher than the share of men who were registered to vote in that same year.

The share of women in the United States House of Representatives has increased significantly since 1965. In that year, only *** percent of Representatives were women. In 2025, that number had increased to **** percent of the House. Despite the significant progress made to female representation in politics, there is still work to be done given that women actually outnumber men in the United States.

During the time period from 2013 to 2025, **** percent of nominees for the Grammy Awards in the category “Best New Artist" were female, making it one of the more gender-balanced categories. “Songwriter of the Year” stands out as the only category where women outnumber men, with **** percent of nominees being female. In contrast, “Producer of the Year” remains the most male-dominated category, with just ******percent of nominees being women.

In U.S. presidential elections since 1964, voter turnout among male and female voters has changed gradually but significantly, with women consistently voting at a higher rate than men since the 1980 election. 67 percent of eligible female voters took part in the 1964 election, compared to 72 percent of male voters. This difference has been reversed in recent elections, where the share of women who voted has been larger than the share of men by around four percent since 2004.

Across all branches of the U.S. military, men were more likely to be officers than women. In 2023, there were 75,077 male officers in the U.S. Army, compared to 17,709 female officers. This contrast was even more stark in the Marine Corps, where there were 19,074 male officers and 2,171 female officers.

As of 2019, most employees in selected tech companies were male. Biotech company 23andMe was ranked first with ** percent female employees, the only company on the list to feature a majority female workforce. Airbnb was ranked second with ***** percent female employees. Hardware-focused companies Intel, Cisco, and Nvidia closed the ranking with less than ** percent female workforce each. One female to every two males in U.S. tech industry     The majority of employees in the U.S. tech industry are male. Round about a third of all employees in tech occupations in the United States are women – Washington D.C., or the District of Columbia, was the state with the greatest tech gender balance in the U.S., with close to ** percent of tech employees there being female in 2019. In general, females also earn less than their male counterparts: males in the U.S. earn around ****** U.S. dollars on average more than females. Types of tech employment    The IT sector employment includes professionals from various sub-fields, such as, technology manufacturing, telecommunications and internet services, software publishing, etc. The worldwide full-time employment in the ICT sector is forecast to grow by around *********** in the next four years. Full-time employees represent close to*** percent of all IT workers worldwide. Other types of employment include outsourced, contractor, or part-time workers.

In the United States, there are more male doctors than female. In 2023, the share of female doctors amounted to just **** percent, although this has increased by *** percent compared to 2021. However, there were large variations depending on the specialty. ************* were most likely to be women (among the major specialties**). Meanwhile, only ***** other specialties had more female than male physicians.

In 2020, long-term care (LTC) hospital was the only LTC setting where men outnumbered women. Assisted living communities, especially, had higher portions of women residents than men.

Millennials were the largest generation group in the United States in 2024, with an estimated population of ***** million. Born between 1981 and 1996, Millennials recently surpassed Baby Boomers as the biggest group, and they will continue to be a major part of the population for many years. The rise of Generation Alpha Generation Alpha is the most recent to have been named, and many group members will not be able to remember a time before smartphones and social media. As of 2024, the oldest Generation Alpha members were still only aging into adolescents. However, the group already makes up around ***** percent of the U.S. population, and they are said to be the most racially and ethnically diverse of all the generation groups. Boomers vs. Millennials The number of Baby Boomers, whose generation was defined by the boom in births following the Second World War, has fallen by around ***** million since 2010. However, they remain the second-largest generation group, and aging Boomers are contributing to steady increases in the median age of the population. Meanwhile, the Millennial generation continues to grow, and one reason for this is the increasing number of young immigrants arriving in the United States.