Editorial notes

Notes

Changelog, research updates, and editorial notes from Typical Female. Short entries documenting what we added, corrected, or revisited.

Methodology, About, and legal pages

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 cente…

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Profession × state pages are live

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, professor…

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Adding 459 field × state data pages

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 st…

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Every US state, now covered

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…

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Launching the Stereotype Atlas

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, nego…

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