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title: "Hold My Coffee...: March 2025 Edition"
description: It's March 2025, and here's what WPLN is paying attention to in the news.
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# [Hold My Coffee...: March 2025 Edition](https://womenspublicleadership.net/blog/hold-my-coffee-2025-edition-march-2025)

 Written by [Sarah Quinlan](https://womenspublicleadership.net/blog/author/sarah-quinlan) | Mar 30, 2025 8:36:44 PM

***... 84% of Americans say U.S. men and women should be treated as equal — but only 29% of Americans say that they are, according to YouGov.***

A [new YouGov survey](https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/51667-44-percent-republicans-16-percent-democrats-say-men-women-in-usa-treated-as-equals-poll) finds the following results:

- 84% of Americans — including 85% of men and 84% of women — believe men and women **should be **social, political, and economic equals.
- The share of men who think men and women should be equals **has increased** from 77% in November 2024, according to a YouGov survey conducted at the time.
- But only 29% of Americans believe men and women are **currently** treated as social, political, and economic equals than think they should be.
- Men (36%) are** more likely** than women (22%) to say men and women are treated as equals.

*And since we know you're busy, here are our top picks for other "must reads" this month!*

- For the woman who refuses to believe the start of the COVID-19 pandemic began 5 years ago this month, POPSUGAR examined [how the pandemic redefined the lives of women](https://www.popsugar.com/balance/how-pandemic-changed-millennial-women-49432640).
- For the woman who knows "money is power," [the *Washington Post* reported that for the first time ever](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/03/20/march-madness-ncaa-tournament-units/3c75e8ce-0572-11f0-941f-6ca83a0bd35b_story.html), women's basketball teams in the NCAA Tournament "will earn financial incentives, known as units, for playing in the tournament."
- For the woman who wants to [Remember the Ladies](https://womenspublicleadership.net/blog/remember-the-ladies-march-edition), check out our monthly feature on key moments in women's representation and rights in the past during the month of March.

[Click here to read the March 2025 newsletter](https://go.womenspublicleadership.net/march-2025).

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