Some Interesting Facts

These are some interesting facts from my Psych of Women book:
1. After more than 200 years of democracy, only 13 percent of U.S. Senators and 14 percent of members of the House of Representatives are women.
2. In the United States, women earn about seventy-four cents for every dollar earned by men.
3. The United Nations estimates that 100 million women worldwide are missing from the population--dead because, as females, they were unwanted.
4. One in four U.S. college students believe that the activities of married women should be limited to home and family (down from one in two in 1970).
5. Women have been heads of state in twenty-three countries around the world, yet in others they lack the basic human rights such as voting and going to school.
6. Women in the U.S. are far more likely than men to suffer from serious depression and eating disorders.
7. Less than 5 percent of the artists in New York's Metropolitan Museum collections are women, but 85 percent of the nude paintings are of females.

Just some food for thought....back to studying.......

The book this time is Nicke and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)