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Bureau Statistics on Women 1998 Data Summary (below) Go to Census Bureau Site for Additional Data http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/women.html |
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for the America Woman in Politics Fact Sheets http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/Facts1.html |
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Earnings and Jobs - Women who were
full-time, year-round workers earned 74 cents in 1997 for every dollar
earned by men -- a significant improvement over the 57 cents they
received in 1973. - The percentage
of wage and salary recipients who were women increased from 32
percent in 1947 to 48 percent in 1997. - Between 1951 and
1997, the proportion of wives who were in the labor force nearly
tripled, from 23 percent to 62 percent. Education - In 1998, 83 percent
of the nation's women ages 25 and over had at least a high school diploma,
while 22 percent had earned at least a bachelor's degree. The
proportion with a high school diploma was not significantly different
from that of men, but the percentage with a bachelor's degree was somewhat
lower than the 27 percent for men. - The educational
attainment levels in 1998 of women ages 25 to 29 exceeded those of men
in the same age group. Ninety percent of young women had at least
a high school diploma and 29 percent had a - Women, who made
up 55 percent of all college students in 1996, comprised 63 percent
of those ages 35 and over. - Women constitute
a rising share of people being awarded college and postgraduate
degrees. In 1995, they represented 55 percent of people awarded
bachelor's degrees, 55 percent of the masters', 39 percent of
- Back in 1971,
very few of the bachelor's degrees awarded in business and management
(9 percent) went to women. By 1995, the proportion had increased
to 48 percent. Similarly impressive increases occurred over Voting - Among citizens,
women were significantly more likely than men to have voted in
the 1996 presidential election (60 percent versus 57 percent). In
1984, women's voting rates in presidential elections surpassed those
of men for the first time since the Census Bureau began collecting
voting data in 1964. Women's voting rates have been higher than men's
ever since. Population Distribution - On Nov. 1, 1998,
there were an estimated 138.2 million women and girls and 132.7
million men and boys in the United States. At older ages, women
outnumbered men by large margins: 20.2 million to - Although females
outnumber males nationally, there were six states in 1997 where
females were in the minority: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho,
Nevada and Wyoming. - In 1996, the life
expectancy for women stood at 79 years; for men, it was 73 years.
Projections for 2010 show life expectancy will be 81 years and
74 years, respectively. Motherhood - In 1995, 58 percent
of 15- to 44-year-old women had had children: 18 percent had given
birth to one child, 23 percent to two, 11 percent to three and
6 percent to four or more. For those at the end of their childbearing
- Over half (55
percent) of the 3.7 million women with a newborn were in the labor
force in 1995, up from 31 percent in 1976. In 1995, women with
newborns were especially likely to be in the labor force (68 percent)
- More women nowadays
are either postponing or not ever having kids. Twenty-seven
percent of women 30 to 34 in 1995 had never given birth; in
1976, the corresponding proportion was 16 percent. The same trend also
holds for women in their late 30s (20 percent were childless in 1995,
11 percent were in 1976) and early 40s (18 percent and 10
percent, respectively). <http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/cb97-192.html>
Marriage and Family - In 1998, 58 percent
of women 18 years old and over were married, 21 percent had never
married and 11 percent each were widowed and divorced.
- The estimated
median age at first marriage was 25.0 years for women in 1998
tying the 20th century-high reached the previous year and up almost
a full five years since the early 1960s. - There were 9.8
million single mothers in 1998, no change from the number
in the previous three years, but up by 6.4 million since 1970. The
total includes those who maintain their own household (7.7 million in
- The number of
women living alone doubled between 1970 and 1998, from 7.3 million
to 15.3 million, or 14 percent of all women 15 years old and
over. Half of the women living alone were elderly; put another way,
41 - All in all, 30.2
million households in 1998 about 30 percent of the
nation's total were maintained by women with no husband present. In
1970, there were 13.4 million such households, comprising about 20
Sports and Recreation - In 1996, the most
popular participatory sport for women and girls ages 7 and over
was exercise walking: the 47 million who put on their walking
shoes at least six times that year comprised nearly two-thirds of the
- During the 1996-97
school year, 128,000 women took part in National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA)-sanctioned sports, constituting nearly 4 in
10 participants. The 7,684 NCAA-sanctioned women's teams, however,
virtually equaled the number of men's teams. Outdoor track had the most
Businesses - The number of
women-owned businesses in the United States reached 6.4 million in 1992,
comprising 33 percent of all domestic firms. Women-owned businesses
generated $1.6 trillion in revenues and employed 13.2 - Women-owned businesses
hire proportionately more women. In 1992, 35 percent of women-owned
employer firms reported 75 percent or more of their work force
was female, compared with less than 24 percent of the The preceding facts
come from the Current Population Survey, population estimates, the Survey
of
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