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157.2 million
The number of females in the United States as of Oct. 1, 2010. The number of males is 153.2 million.
Source: US Census Bureau
Earnings, women to men
$36,278
The median annual earnings of women 15 or older who worked year-round, full time, in 2009, up 1.9 percent from $35,609 in 2008 (after adjusting for inflation). Women earned 77 cents for every $1 earned by men, unchanged for several years running.
Source: US Census Bureau
Education, women to men
35%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who had obtained a bachelor's degree or more as of 2009, which exceeded that of men in this age range—27%.
55%
Percentage of college students in fall 2008 who were women.
58%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who held advanced degrees in 2009, which exceed that of men in this age range—42%.
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2009
Political representation, women to men 112th Congress
16.8%
Percentage of women in Congress.
17
Number of women out of 100 U.S. Senators
74
Number of women out of 435 U.S. Representatives. (3 are Delegates) (Of the 74 women in the House, 50 are Democrats, including the 3 Delegates, and 24 are Republicans. Of the 17 women serving in the Senate, 12 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans.)
Source: Congressional Research Service
Rapes or sexual assault against women, 2007
248,300
The majority of US citizens are women; Women are more highly educated in the U.S; Women are continually paid less--by almost 25 percent--than men. Despite a vast pipeline of women in the professional workforce, they are relegated to non-alpha positions. Women are given miniscule representation in government even as they are the majority of the population. Women are largely relegated (most often by so-called progressives) to represent only Democrats in Congress. A staggering national assault occurs daily against women’s bodies with scant attention paid by male-dominated media.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice
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oped pages nytimesWomen get the same proportion of space on the op/ed pages as they do on the masthead at the New York Times—it is Time to see and end this connection.Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 2:24 pm — admin
FemiSex has written repeatedly about the inability of the Times op/ed page editors to include women in their “Questions For” format. Last week we posted: The New York Times Op/ed Pages –a bastion of distain, discrimination, and diminishment against women. An excerpt: The New York Times Op/ed Pages –a bastion of distain, discrimination, and diminishment against women.Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 12:32 pm — admin
There is a format on the The New York Times Op/ed page that is sort of like absolute zero towards women. This format occurs when the editors of the page run a item called “Questions For so and so.” They have done so many times this past year, mostly in relation to the elections. Questions for Obama and McCain, questions for the veep candidates, and, now, this year on Tues. Jan. 13th…. “Questions for Mrs. Clinton” re her confirmation as SOS.  |
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