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Show W 1 ggjK Jysm In the interest of all things being equal, I pass on to you a fact sheet just published by the National Organization for Women. Fact: According to the US Department of Labor, median earnings for full time workers age 16 and over were $301 per week. But white males earned $371, white females earned $234 and Hispanic females earned $203. Fact: Almost one female-headed family in three is poor; about one in eighteen families headed by a man is poor. Fact: In 1981, the number of children with mothers at work (31.8 million) was larger than the number of children with mothers at home (26.3 million). Fact: A study tracing child support payments by ex-husbands over 10 years showed 42 percent of these fathers didn't make a single payment in the first year. By the tenth year, 79 percent were making no payments. Fact: In 1980, total direct costs to raise a child in the US were estimated at $85, 163 through four years of college or $72,894 to age 18 (moderate cost). Fact: One half of all women work in just 20 percent of over 400 occupational categories. They are 98 percent of all nurses, 98 percent of all receptionists, and 97 percent of all secretaries. Fact: Under the current job classification system a government secretary is paid less than a government parking lot attendant. Child care workers' salaries are on a par with dog pound attendants. Fact: More than one third of candidates for MBAs this year are women, but only five percent of executives in the top 50 companies are women. Fact: The majority of college students are women (6.2 million women, compared to 5.8 million men), yet women are only 25 percent of full-time college faculty and they are clustered at the lower professional ranks. The NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund is challenging the law, systems, institutions and public policies that penalize women! - correcting injustices in the home and workplace and teaching women to assert their rights to a life of dignity and worth and full equality under the protection of the law. Please help! NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, 132 Wesf 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036. |