According to a Pew Research Center analysis, women are currently serving as the head of government in only 13 out of the 193 member states of the United Nations, and less than a third of UN countries have ever had a woman leader. Among the 13 countries with current women leaders, nine have their first-ever female head of government, including Peru, Italy, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, whose female leaders took office within the past year. Europe is home to seven out of 13 of the current women leaders.

The gender pay gap in the US has not changed much in the past two decades, with women earning 82% of what men earned in 2022, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. The study found that the wage gap was smaller for workers aged 25 to 34, with women earning 92 cents for every dollar earned by a man in the same age group. The gap among all workers in 2022 was 18 cents, down from 35 cents in 1982.

Black History Month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements and accomplishments of Black Americans since their emancipation from slavery. It was founded in 1926 as Negro History Week by Carter G. Woodson, a Black historian and journalist.

American adults were asked about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality in an Economist/YouGov poll conducted last week. 

Today we are looking at women in government. The number of women in the 118th Congress is the highest in U.S. history (28%), an increase of 59% since the 112th Congress in 2013, but they remain far behind their share of the general population.