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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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FemiStats: Longevity in U.S. at All Time High; Death Rates Decline SharplyThursday, August 20, 2009 at 8:53 pm — admin
 From the CDC: • For black males, life expectancy reached a record 70 years. • In the past decade, overall life expectancy increased by 1.4 years. • Between 2006 and 2007, mortality rates declined significantly for eight of the 15 leading causes of death. Declines were observed for influenza and pneumonia (8.4 percent), homicide (6.5 percent), accidents (5 percent), heart disease (4.7 percent), stroke (4.6 percent), diabetes (3.9 percent), hypertension (2.7 percent), and cancer (1.8 percent). • There were an estimated 11,061 deaths from HIV/AIDS in 2007, and mortality rates from the disease declined 10 percent from 2006, the biggest one-year decline since 1998. HIV remains the sixth leading cause of death among 25-44 year-olds. Comment: From a reader to FemiSex inbox: I have repeatedly been blasted by emails from an organization I was once very fond of, broadcasting that the quality of medical care in the United States is abysmal. I find this sort of slamming of medical doctors and other caregivers shameful. I am one of the legions of providers who find the byzantine insurance forms bedeviling, yet I truly resent this demonizing of the state of art of medical care in this country. Cost is out of control, yes, but shame on those who say the care is rotten. Today I put a sad face on Debra Ness, publisher & president, National Partnership for Women and Families. I think she has gone over the top in what I can only describe as her hysteria to undermine trust between patients and their doctors. I hope she is removed from her position at this organization. Reform requires honesty and belittling our nation's very hard working fleet of caregivers is a low bow in common decency. |
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Also it is important to
Also it is important to remember that life expectancy is much longer if you make it past a certain age. These numbers include murder and car accident rates that are much higher in younger populations and some ethnic populations.
I am feed up with hearing Tom Dashele talk about the low rate of life expectancy in this country when compared to other Western countries. They don't have the inner city violence rates we do-not even close.
For example:
During the first four months of 2008, 134 murders were committed in Chicago. In comparison, according to icasualties.com, a total of 160 Americans were killed in all of Iraq during the same period.
This is one reason we have lower life expectancies in the U.S.
It steams me when far left libs (I'm a center left person) distort the numbers and fail to account for things such as our high inner city murder rate and drug abuse deaths.
Mr. Daschle also rants about
Mr. Daschle also rants about infant mortality in this country. But the vast differences in rates between minorities say much about those communities and less about our health care system.
From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/health/07stat.html
When Mr. Daschle says on Meet the Press that our health care system is rotten because we have high infant mortality is like him saying our health care system is rotten because we have very high rates of sexually transmitted disease in certain communities. Public health problems have the word public in them for a reason--the public is complicit and can be determinative of the problem.
Well said. If a woman makes
Well said. If a woman makes it past 60 she is likely to live past the avg. of 80.
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