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Women’s
History Month: March 2010
National Women’s History Month’s roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn’t until 1981 that Congress established National Women’s History Week to be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month. Every year since, Congress has passed a resolution for Women’s History Month, and the President has issued a proclamation.
155.8 million
The number
of females in the United States as of Oct. 1, 2009. The number of males was
151.8 million. Source: Population estimates: At 85 and older, there were more than twice as many women as men. Source:
Population
estimates:
Motherhood 82.8 million Estimated number of mothers of all ages in the United States. Source: Unpublished data from Survey of Income and Program Participation 1.9 Average number of children that women 40 to 44 had given birth to as of
2006, down
from 3.1 children in 1976, the year the Census Bureau began collecting such
data. The percentage of women in this age group who had given birth was 80
percent in 2006, down from 90 percent in 1976. Source: Fertility of American
Women: 2006
Earnings $35,745
The median
annual earnings of women 15 or older who worked year-round, full time, in 2008,
down from $36,451 in 2007 (after adjusting for inflation). Women earned 77 cents
for every $1 earned by men. Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance
Coverage in the United States: 2008 88 percent
The ratio
of women’s-to-men’s earnings in the District of Columbia in 2008, among the
highest of any state or state equivalent in the nation along with California,
Arizona, Maryland, New York, Vermont, Georgia and Hawaii. Source: Men’s and
Women’s Earnings by State: 2008 American Community Survey
Education 29.4 million
Number of
women 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or more education in 2008, higher
than the corresponding number for men (28.4 million). Women had a larger share
of high school diplomas, as well as associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
More men than women had a professional or doctoral degree. Source: Educational
Attainment in the United States: 2008 29%
Percent of
women 25 and older who had obtained a bachelor’s degree or more as of 2008.
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2008 55%
Percentage
of college students in fall 2008 who were women. Source: School Enrollment in
the United States: 2008
Businesses
Source for
the statements in this section: Women-Owned Firms: 2002 and Company Summary:
2002 More than $939 billion Revenue for women-owned businesses in 2002. There were 116,985 women-owned businesses with receipts of $1 million or more. Nearly 6.5 million The number of women-owned businesses in 2002. Women owned 28 percent of all nonfarm businesses; 916,657 of these were employer firms. More than 7.1 million Number of people employed by women-owned businesses. There were 7,231 women-owned businesses with 100 or more employees, generating $274 billion in gross receipts. Nearly one in three women-owned businesses operated in health care and social assistance, and other services, such as personal services, and repair and maintenance. Women owned 72 percent of social assistance businesses and just over half of nursing and residential care facilities. Wholesale and retail trade accounted for 38 percent of women-owned business revenue. 13% Percentage of women-owned businesses in California, which had the most women-owned businesses at 870,496. New York was second with 505,077 or 8 percent of all women-owned businesses. Texas was third in number with 468,705, accounting for 7 percent of all women-owned businesses. Note: The 2007 Preliminary Estimates of Business Ownership by Gender, Ethnicity, and Race will be available in July 2010 and the more detailed 2007 Women-Owned Businesses report will be published in December 2010.
Voting 66%
Percentage
of female citizens 18 and older who reported voting in the 2008 Presidential
election. Sixty-two percent of their male counterparts cast a ballot.
Additionally, 73 percent of female citizens reported being registered to vote.
Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2008
Jobs 59%
In 2008,
the percentage of females 16 and older who participated in the labor force,
representing about 72 million women. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 38%
Percent of
females 16 or older who worked in management, professional and related
occupations, compared with 32 percent of males. Source: 2008 American Community
Survey 23.8 million
Number of
female workers in educational services, health care and social assistance
industries. More women worked in this industry group than in any other. Within
this industry group, 11.9 million worked in the health care industry, 9.1
million in educational services and 2.7 million worked in the social assistance
industry. Source: 2008 American Community Survey 67%
Chances
are that your taxes will be prepared by a woman, as this was the percentage of
tax preparers who were women in 2008. In addition, 72 percent of travel agents
were women. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as cited in the Statistical
Abstract of the United States: 2010, Table 603. 99,000
Number of
female police officers across the country in 2008. In addition, there were
about 14,000 women firefighters, 349,000 lawyers, 267,000 physicians and
surgeons, and 36,000 pilots. (Note: Number of pilots pertains to 2007.) Source:
U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, as
cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010, Tables 603 and
1047
Military 197,900
Total
number of active duty women in the military, as of Sept. 30, 2008. Of that
total, 34,300 women were officers, and 163,600 were enlisted. Source: U.S.
Department of Defense, as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United
States: 2010, Table 498. 14%
Proportion
of members of the armed forces who were women, as of Sept. 30, 2008. Source:
U.S. Department of Defense, as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United
States: 2010, Table 498. 1.7 million
The number
of military veterans who were women in 2008. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010,
Table 509.
Marriage 64.5 million
Number of
married women 18 and older (including those who were separated or had an absent
spouse) in 2008. Source: Families and Living Arrangements: 2008 18%
Percentage
of married couples in which the wife earned at least $5,000 more than the
husband in 2008. Source: Families and Living Arrangements: 2008 5.3 million
Number of
stay-at-home mothers nationwide in 2008. Source: Families and Living
Arrangements: 2008
Sports 3.1 million
Number of
girls who participated in high school athletic programs in the 2007-08 school
year. In the 1979-80 school year, only 1.75 million girls were members of a high
school athletic team. Source: National Federation of State High School
Associations, as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010,
Table 1211. 178,084
Number of
women who participated in a National Collegiate Athletic Association sport in
2007-08. Source: National Collegiate Atheletic Association (NCAA), as cited in
the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010, Table 1210.
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