Gender stereotypes remain strong across Europe. In December 2024, the European Commission surveyed over 26,000 people in all 27 EU member states to measure just how widespread these views are.

In Bulgaria, 37% say earning money is the most important role of a man. In Poland, just 22% think it’s acceptable for men to cry. I mapped all of it from

Around 21,000 years ago, you could walk from Britain to the continent without crossing water. The North Sea floor was dry land. A broad plain linked Siberia to Alaska, which is partly how mammoths and eventually

Sometime around the 1950s, the average woman on earth had five children. That number has been dropping ever since, and today it remains at about