New Moon Rising: Fall 1995

FEM FACTS

The typical wife in a dual-income household spends more than 20 hours a week doing housework, while her husband spends 5 hours or less.: -Ms.
An estimated 1 million child prostitutes, mostly girls, work in Asia, including 300,000 in India, 200,000 in Thailand, 100,000 in the Philippines, 40,000 in Vietnam, 30,000 in Sri Lanka and many thousands in China.: -Women's Feature Service (a U.N. source)
A study of a random sample of "adult" movies available in family video rental stores in Southern California found that over half of the explicit sexual scenes were predominantly concerned with domination and exploitation.: -Cown, Lee, Levy & Snyder, 1988
The gender gap in education was more than halved in developing countries between 1970 and 1990.: -Women's Feature Service
In the United States, over one-fourth of all brides have been previously divorced.: -Ihinger-Tallman & Pasley, 1987
A speculum, a lubricant, a mirror with a clip-on light, and a book describing what to look for is all a woman needs to do a self-examination between yearly gynecological exams. Order a kit through Personal Insights at (303) 377-3190, or assemble your own.: -Ms.
It is estimated that one-fourth of women worldwide are physically battered.: -Women's Feature Service
Approximately 90% of children are aware of the violence directed at their mother.: -National Women Abuse Prevention Project
Girls experience an average weight gain of 24 pounds during puberty.: -Crawford & Unger, 1992
Heterosexual transmission is the leading cause of HIV for women. Worldwide, 3,000 women are infected daily with the virus that causes AIDS.: -Women's Feature Service
A booklet detailing 40 ways to fight the good fight against AIDSÑfrom holding HIV-positive babies to becoming a safer-sex educatorÑcan be ordered for $10 from the Living With . . . Group. Call (800) 331-9761 for details.: -Ms.
Over one-half of elementary or junior-high girls who were in the middle of their breast development reported having been teased about it.: -Brooks-Gunn, 1987
Women work an average of 13% more hours than men in every country. The difference ranges from as little as eight minutes a day in the Republic of Korea to almost three hours a day in rural KenyaÑthe equivalent of more than forty-five round-the-clock days every year.: -Women's Feature Service
According to a recent study, 48% of married women provide half or more of their family income. And a majority said they enjoyed both work and home responsibilities, although they were often pressed for time.: -Ms.
In a study of unmarried college students, 90% of men and 78% of women stated that they would prefer a boy if they could only have one child.: -Hammer, 1987
Women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people in the world living in poverty.: -Women's Feature Service.
In 1990, ten million women lived with their own children and the father was absent. Government surveys show that 58% of mothers had child support awards, but only 2.5 million received the full amountÑan average of $2,995 per family. One-quarter received nothing.: -U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1991
Percentage of women smokers within major ethnic groups: Asian AmericanÑ9.5%, LatinaÑ12.7%, African AmericanÑ21%, European AmericanÑ24%, and Native AmericanÑ41%.: -Ms.
Most mental health surveys indicate a two to two-and-a-half times greater incidence of depression among young women than men. It also has been estimated that 85% of all agoraphobic individuals and 95% of those suffering from anorexia are women.: -Franks, 1986
At the current rate of progress, it would take 475 years for women to reach equality with men as senior managers.: -Women's Feature Service
Research shows that the risk of violence between spouses is particularly high where there is a great status difference between husband and wife, especially when the wife's occupation is of higher status than the husbands.: -Ulbrich and Huber
While men have historically been more likely to be economically independent than women, the gender gap has narrowed from 26 women to each 100 men in 1970 to 40 women to each 100 men in 1990.: -Women's Feature Service
A recent Stanford University study tracked 111 men and 94 women wearing heart monitors for three days. The findings? Women spend more time each day at activities that elevate the heart rateÑpreviously undiscovered exercises that include vacuuming, child care, and doing laundry.: -Ms.
After divorce, men (on average) experience a 42% increase in their standard of living; women, a 73% decrease.: -Weitzman, 1985
85 million to 114 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation worldwide; each year an estimated 2 million more girls suffer the practice in Africa, Asia, or as immigrants or refugees in Europe and North America.: -Women's Feature Service
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine found that twice as many women as men have the keen and complex sense of taste that qualifies them as "supertasters.": -Ms.

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