The Gender Pay Gap
Percentage of women in the U.S. workforce: 49.4
Number of women employed in the U.S: 69,901,000
Bureau of Labor (Table B-5, p. 34)
Bureau of Labor (Household survey Table A-1)
National Journal
Percentage of minimum wage workers who are women: 62.8 %
Bureau of Labor (Table 10)
Number of women in Fortune 500 CEOs in 1995: 0
in 2014: 24
Pew Research Center
Fortune
Number of women among the 200 highest paid CEOs: 13
Equilar Executive Compensation Survey/ New York Times
Number of hours each year that women do unpaid labor raising children and taking care of sick and elderly: 110, 000,000
The Shriver Report
For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States edited by Nancy Folbre, Russell Sage Foundation (2012) p. 98
Percentage that women earned compared to white men, based on median annual full-time earnings:
White women: 78
African American women: 64
Latina: 54
American Association of University Women
infoplease.com
Harvard Business Review
The percentage of major occupations for which women earn less than men: 99.6
Bloomberg
U.S. Department of Labor
Fortune
Percentage of nurses that are men: 10
Cents on the dollar that female nurses get paid versus male nurses: 90
American Medical Journal
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Cents on the dollar that waitresses get paid versus waiters: 89
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Cents on the dollar that female secretaries get paid versus male secretaries: 84.5
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Money CNN
Cents on the dollar that female lawyers get paid versus male lawyers: 83
Bureau of Labor
Cents on the dollar that female mangers get paid versus male manager: 81
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
: The Gender WAGE GAP:2014
Cents on the dollar that female doctors get paid versus male doctors: 63
Fortune
Cents on the dollar that women in sales jobs get paid versus men in sales jobs: 62
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Cents on the dollar that female CEOS get paid versus male CEOS: 80
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Think Progress
The year that women will achieve equal pay if changes in women’s wages continue at current rate: 2059
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Infoplease.com
Number of women in the U.S.: 161,000,000
Percentage women make up in U.S. population: 51%
U.S. Census Bureau
Number of women in U.S. Senate: 20 out of 100 seats (20 percent)
Number of women in House: 84 of 435 seats (19.3 percent)
Rutgers University
The year women will have an equal share of seats in Congress if elected to office at the current rate: 2117
Fortune
Institute of Women’s Policy Research
Percentage of state and federal judges who are women: 33
Americas Quarterly
Percentage of college presidents who are women: 26
American Council of Education
Percentage military commissioned officers who are women: 16
Percentage of military generals or admirals who are women: 7
Pew Research Center
CNN
Percentage of U.S. mayors who are women: 17
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Percentage of CEOS who are women: 5.2.
Washington Post
Catalyst
Percentage of pastors: 12
Faith Communities Today Survey
Number of Wal-Mart employees in the U.S: 1,400,000
Wal-Mart Fact Sheet
Gross Sales in 2014 for Wal-Mart: $473 000,000,000
Wal-Mart 2014 Annual Report
Average hourly wage of Wal-Mart employee in 2014: $8.48
Wall Street Journal
Average dollar amount that female employees at Wal-Mart earn less than male employees annually: $1,100
Statistical Analysis Of Gender Patterns In Wal-Mart Workforce
Percentage of Wal-Mart’s hourly workforce that is female: Two thirds
Percentage of managerial workforce that’s female: One third
CNN
Statistical Analysis of Gender Patterns in Wal-Mart Workforce
Percentage of women directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 (domestic) grossing films in 1998: 17
in 2014: 17
Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University
Percentage of female lead protagonists in the top 100 grossing films of 2014: 12
Percentage of speaking roles for women in the top 100 grossing films of 2014: 30
Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University
The Law
Percentage of Americans who believe the Constitution should guarantee equal rights for women: 96
Percentage of Americans who believe the Constitution already does guarantee equal rights: 72
Survey conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for the Equal Rights Amendment CampaignFortune
Number of states required to pass the Equal Rights Amendment: 38
Number of states that ratified ERA in first year 1972–1973: 30
Number of states that ratified ERA by deadline in 1982: 35
Equalrightsamendment.org
Which States Ratified the ERA in the First Year
International Women’s Rights
Number of countries that have not ratified The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): 7 – Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Palau, Tonga, United States
CEDAW 2015
Number of victims of female genital mutilations worldwide: 130,000,000
UNICEF
UN Women
Number of child brides around the world: 64,000,000
CARE
UN Women
Number of women who live in countries where domestic violence is not a crime: 600,000,000
United Nations
Female Poverty
Number of women currently living in poverty, or on the brink, in the U.S.: 42,000,000
Number of children dependent upon these women: 28,000,000
The Shriver Report
Country where the gap in poverty rates between men and women is wider than anywhere in the Western world: United States
Center for American Progress
The Journal for Sociology and Social Welfare
Domestic Violence
Number of women killed each day by intimate partner: 3
National Network to End Domestic Violence
CNN
Percentage of increase in risk that a domestic violence situation will end in homicide if a gun is present: 500
American Journal of Public Health
Number of U.S. troops killed from 2001 to 2012 in Afghanistan: 2,002
Number of women, in the same period, killed as the result of domestic violence in the U.S.: 11,766
Politifact
Upworthy
Number of women turned away from domestic violence programs in a single day in September 2013 due to budget cuts: 9,641
Of those turned away from shelters, percentage that wound up living on the streets or in their cars: 40
The percentage who returned to their abusers: 60
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Annual cost of domestic violence in U.S.: $5.8 billion
Center for Disease Control
Forbes
Percentage of women convicted of homicide who acted in self defense against an abuser: up to 80
Solidarity
Rape & Sexual Assault
Out of 100 rapes, how many will be reported: 32
How many will lead to arrest: 7
How many will result in felony convictions for rapist: 2
How many rapists will serve prison time: 2
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
Number of universities and colleges under federal investigation for failing to protect students from sexual assault: 147 (as of Nov 2015)
U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights
Percentage rise in victim reports of sexual assaults in the military from 2012–2013: 53
The Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2014 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military
Pregnancy Discrimination
Number of women who become pregnant in the United States each year: 6,000,000
Guttmacher Institute
Statistic Brain Research Institute
Number of developed countries that don’t require paid maternity leave: 1 — The United States
A Better Balance
Pew Research Center
World Policy Center
Percentage of soon-to-be new mothers in U.S. who are not eligible for unpaid maternity leave under Family and Medical Leave Act: 80
National Partnership for Women and Families
Percentage of working mothers with children at home: 70
Bureau of Labor
Percentage of women who are sole or primary provider in households with children: 40
Pew Research Center
The New York Times
Percentage a woman’s salary decreases, on average, for each child she has: 4
Percentage a man’s salary increases, on average, for each child he has: 6
The New York Times
The Fatherhood Bonus and the Motherhood Penalty
Percentage of women who do not qualify for leave under FMLA: 40
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Reproductive Healthcare
Number of states that require waiting period before purchasing a gun: 11
Number of states that require waiting period before an abortion: 28
Smartgunlaws.org
Guttmacher Institute
Percentage of U.S. women who have used birth control: 99
Guttmacher Institute
Number of states in 2014 that introduced legislative provisions to limit women’s access to reproductive health care: 38
Guttmacher Institute
Foster Care & Child Sex Trafficking
Number of children in foster care in America: 400,000
Children’s Bureau, Office of the Administration for Children and Families
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
Estimated earnings a pimp can make annually prostituting one child: $150,000–$200,000
NPR
Female Incarceration
Percentage of women convicted of homicide who acted in self defense against an abuser: up to 80
Solidarity
Percentage of increase in the numbers of women in federal and state prison between 1980 and 2010: 646
The Sentencing Project
Number of states that allow pregnant inmates to be shackled during labor and delivery: 37
ACLU
Percentage girls make up of all juvenile arrests for running away: 59
of juvenile prostitution arrests: 69
Princeton University
Percentage of incarcerated girls who have been exposed to physical, emotional or sexual abuse: 92
Princeton University