Changing Role of Women

12/02/2009

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

In a special report on "The State of the American Women," Time (October 26, 2009; www.time.com) highlighted these among many comparisons of the status of women now and 40 years ago...

Median annual earnings of full-time workers in 2008 dollars:
1972 Men       -- $46,956
1972 Women -- $27,169

2008 Men       -- $46,367
2008 Women -- $35,745

Percentage of women with children under 3 in the labor force:
1975 -- 34%
2008 -- 60%

Percentage of all jobs held by women:
1972 -- 36.2%
2009 -- 49.8%

Number of married couples in which the wife is the sole earner:
1970 --    900,000
2008 -- 3,300,000

Women as a percentage of all...
Lawyers in 1970 --   3%
Lawyers in 2008 -- 32%

Medical doctors in 1970 --   8%
Medical doctors in 2008 -- 28%

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