Women Are Overtaking Men in the U.S. -- Sphere News »
Posted By TimALoftis 1 week, 6 days ago in Business & FinanceThe United States may have officially entered the age of woman.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this fall, for the first time in U.S. history, women have surpassed men and now make up more than 50 percent of the nation's workforce. In 1967, by comparison, they accounted for just one-third of all workers.
Signs of the changing landscape in gender relations are just about everywhere you look:
• Double the number of single women are now purchasing homes in America than there are single men.
• Four out of every 10 women are are now their family's primary breadwinner, a sharp increase from past decades.
• The New Hampshire State Legislature is now made up of a majority of women, a first for a legislative body in the U.S., and the number of women in government continues to edge up nationwide.
• Women now account for 30 percent of math Ph.D.s, up from just 5 percent in the 1960s.
• On average, women read nine books every year. Men only read four, and women account for 80 percent of the U.S. fiction market.
• The World Bank recently estimated that the global earning power of women will reach an estimated $18 trillion by the year 2014, up $5 trillion today.
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Jaydee401 week, 6 days ago
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Could it be the simple fact many more women are born every year? As less men are born and more women gain access to the education and jobs once thought to be male orientated it stands to reason the #'s would go up. What's plumbing got to do with anything anyway. The real sad thing is as women get more like men humanity loses those great qualities so many had that really made us great, our loss as a species in my opinion.
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BronxBomber1 week, 6 days ago
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I guess we'll have to redo, and edit James Brown's song:
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mesodude1 week, 6 days ago
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Good...Finally, the dawn. Not unlike the philosophy of right wingers towards big government, my feeling is that men have been given centuries and centuries of chances to rule the world and time and time again they've screwed up. So it's time we cut our losses. No more men in positions of power. They can't be trusted. Why should we believe they will ever change? They only want to start wars and fight over money and hike the appalachian trail and stuff. BOOOOO-ring. BTDT. Let's give women a chance and maybe we can finally get our planet (or at least our country) back on the right path. Less testosterone and more...um...farrahmoans (sp?) or whatever. ;-x
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BronxBomber1 week, 6 days ago
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What makes you think that women in power would be any different than a man Meso?
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You're forgetting about Margaret Thatcher. The former PM of England. She thought she had a set like a man...
& Joan of Arc? A woman who kept hearing "voices" and got burnt to a crispy well done at the stake.
& let's not forget Nancy Reagan, the real President, not her hubby Ronald, well, 'nuff said about that....
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rimbaud1 week, 6 days ago
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We already have competition from smart-ass Asians and now it's our own woman who are getting ahead of us? Math and reading??? Like we're not already busy making a living for our families? Can't we just enjoy a few hours of brain-dead football a week as our guiltless reward?
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