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153.6 million
The number of females in the United States as of Oct. 1, 2007. The number of males is 149.4 million.
Source: US Census Bureau
Earnings, women to men
$32,649
The median annual earnings of women 16 or older who worked year-round, full time, in 2006. Women earned 77 cents for every $1 earned by men.
Source: American Community Survey, US Census Bureau
Education, women to men
32%
Percent of women 25 to 29 who had attained a bachelor's degree or higher in 2006, which exceeded that of men in this age range (25 percent).
Source: American Community Survey
Political representation, women to men 111th Congress
17
Number of women out of 100 U.S. Senators.
74
Number of women out of 435 U.S. Representatives.
Source: American Community Survey
Rapes or sexual assault against women, 2007
248,300
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice
The majority of US citizens are women; Women are more highly educated in the U.S; Women are paid less--by almost 25 percent--than men. Women are given miniscule representation in government even as they are the majority of the population. A staggering national assault occurs daily against women’s bodies.
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Joan WalshMessage to Mean Girls in Media: the 80s called they want their B word back!Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 3:51 pm — admin
"I know journalists aren't supposed to use words like mean and dumb, but I can't help it. Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest." ~Joan Walsh, Salon.com The Rapeification of Women by Women, from Tehran to the U.S.Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 3:57 pm — admin
Sexism is so freakn’ complicated. It roots itself in our pores and oozes out of us when we are not looking, even when we are actively trying to fight the devil that is sexism. FemiSex has long railed at liberal sexism exhibited by our comics. The fact that our cultural arbiters are “funny” men and women for whom racism is off limits but sexism is manna from heaven is one of the ways that sexism lives in our subcutaneous layers. Our culture sensitivities are so hard to flesh out and flush away. Joan Walsh: the SEXIST POT calls the Republican Kettle BlackWednesday, May 27, 2009 at 2:54 pm — admin
FemiSex has more to come on Sotomayor’s upcoming dance with Congress, but first let’s have a moment to laugh, long and hard AT not With Joan Walsh of Salon.com. A few days ago, as I did a channel surf, Joan Walsh was on some pundit/bundit circuit show (CNN I think) and was complaining that: "Like her or not, the Republicans Tore Sarah Palin to Shreds.” (I jotted this down once I found a pen, so the quote is from memory and I think it is exact.) Salon rates Palin as Fuckable; Joan Walsh denies misogyny in allowing such languageWednesday, March 18, 2009 at 2:08 pm — admin
Recently we published comments from a reader (L.A.) that had several excellent points. We’ve already tackled her thoughts and ours on marriage as a means of oppression to women. Today we post another portion of her letter:
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