https://typicalfemale.com/notes/ Changelog, research updates, and editorial notes from Typical Female. Short entries documenting what we added, corrected, or revisited. en-us Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:22:32 GMT https://typicalfemale.com/notes/profession-expansion-20/ https://typicalfemale.com/notes/profession-expansion-20/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We doubled the profession × state corpus to 20 professions × 51 jurisdictions — 1,020 pages total. The new 10: dentists, pharmacists, architects, psychologists, airline pilots, electricians, plumbers, police officers, journalists, financial analysts. Alongside this, we rebuilt the internal linking graph: every state page now lists its profession and field variants; every profession-state page cross-navigates to other professions in the state and the same profession in neighboring states. Link density matters for discovery; that's the investment. https://typicalfemale.com/notes/authority-pages-live/ https://typicalfemale.com/notes/authority-pages-live/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We've published /about/, /methodology/, /privacy/, and /terms/. The Methodology page documents our sourcing hierarchy (government statistical agencies first, then peer-reviewed research, then institutional research centers, then industry data, then primary documents) and our verdict-assignment process. If you want to audit our approach to a specific page, that's the place to start. https://typicalfemale.com/notes/indexnow-live/ https://typicalfemale.com/notes/indexnow-live/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We added IndexNow — the open protocol used by Bing, Yandex, Seznam, and Naver for real-time indexing. A GitHub Action now fires on every content push: 60-second wait for Vercel to deploy, then all sitemap URLs are posted to the IndexNow endpoint. Our first submission pushed 1,117 URLs to all four search engines. Google doesn't participate in IndexNow; we submit its sitemap via Search Console separately. https://typicalfemale.com/notes/profession-state-launch/ https://typicalfemale.com/notes/profession-state-launch/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Parallel to field × state, we've now published 510 profession × state pages — ten high-search-volume professions (surgeons, doctors, lawyers, nurses, software developers, CEOs, engineers, teachers, accountants, professors) across every US state. Each page uses real BLS profession-level median earnings with the state's Census ACS wage-ratio adjustment. They're deep-linked to the Pay Gap Lookup tool with profession and state preset. https://typicalfemale.com/notes/field-state-cross-product/ https://typicalfemale.com/notes/field-state-cross-product/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We went from 15 national data pages to 474 with a single expansion: 9 fields (tech, law, politics, medicine, engineering, finance, trades, academia, sports) multiplied across 51 US jurisdictions. Each page applies the state's overall wage environment to the national field median earnings, producing a state-adjusted estimate. URLs read naturally: /data/women-in-law-in-california/, /data/women-in-tech-in-texas/. https://typicalfemale.com/notes/adding-state-pages/ https://typicalfemale.com/notes/adding-state-pages/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We've added /state/ pages for all 50 US states plus DC — each with pay ratio, pay-equity rank, women's legislature representation, congressional women from the state, first-woman-governor/senator year, and notable firsts. Data comes from Census ACS S2001 (pay) and CAWP Rutgers (representation). The state pages are the geographic spine connecting national data pages to local context. https://typicalfemale.com/notes/launch-stereotype-atlas/ https://typicalfemale.com/notes/launch-stereotype-atlas/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today we published the first 12 entries of the Stereotype Atlas — a long-running project to catalog stereotypes about women with primary-source data behind every claim. The first batch covers driving, math, emotion, negotiation, leadership, crying, and seven others. Each entry assigns one of six verdicts (debunked, mostly myth, mixed, partially supported, supported with context, insufficient data) based on the consensus of the cited data. The Atlas is the research spine of everything else we publish.