The American Woman on the Web:
A Statistical Portrait

Edited by Anne J. Stone

This "edition" in WREI's American Woman series, which is no longer being published in its traditional form, comprises statistical information about the status of women. The section numbers conform to those used in earlier, published editions of The American Woman. They include Education, Health, Employment, Earnings and Benefits, and

However, some sections that appeared in earlier editions are not included in this one. The Demographics section (Section One) is still in preparation. For current information on Women in the Military (Section Seven), please visit WREI's Women in the Military project. For current information about elected officials and appointed women (Section Eight), we suggest the Center for American Women in Politics.

All tables and figures are PDF files that can be viewed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. For more information on PDF files, please visit the Adobe Acrobat website.

We hope our resources will permit us to continue updating the statistics in The American Woman on the Web.

Section Two: Education
	Table of Contents
	Introduction
Table 2-1	Educational attainment of women and men age 25 and over by race and Hispanic origin, 2003
Figure 2-1	Educational attainment of women age 25 and over by race and Hispanic origin, 2003
Figure 2-2	Educational attainment of Hispanic and Asian women in the U.S. by whether U.S.- or foreign-born, 2003
Table 2-2	Educational attainment of women and men age 25 and over by age, race, and Hispanic origin, 2003
Figure 2-3	SAT mathematics and verbal scores by sex, 1981/82–2001/02.
Table 2-3	Undergraduate enrollment of U.S. citizens and permanent residents by sex, race and Hispanic origin, 1990, 1995, and 2000
Figure 2-4	Undergraduate enrollment of women by race and Hispanic origin, 2000
Figure 2-5	Undergraduates receiving financial aid, by sex, academic years 1989/90 and 1999/2000
Table 2-4	Recipients of postsecondary degrees by sex, academic years 1980/81, 2000/01, and projected 2010/11
Figure 2-6	U.S. citizens and permanent residents awarded bachelor’s degrees, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, academic year 2000/2001
Table 2-5	Women’s share of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees awarded in selected fields, academic years 1980/81 and 2000/01
Table 2-6	U.S. citizens and permanent residents awarded doctoral degrees, by sex, by race and Hispanic origin of the women, and by field, academic year 2000/01
Figure 2-7	Full-time faculty in institutions of higher education by sex, and by race and Hispanic origin of the women, fall 1998
Figure 2-8	Recipients of first professional degrees conferred on U.S. citizens and permanent residents by sex, selected fields, academic years 1991/92 and 2001/02
Figure 2-9	Women receiving first professional degrees by race and Hispanic origin, selected fields, academic year 2001/2002

Section Three: Health
	Section Three: Table of Contents
	Introduction
Figure 3-1	Pregnant women by age, 1976 and 2000
Table 3-1	Pregnancy outcomes by age of woman, 1976 and 2000
Table 3-2	Legal abortions by weeks of gestation, 1975, 1985, 1995, and 2000
Figure 3-2	Prenatal care for mothers with live births by race and Hispanic origin, 1970-2001
Figure 3-3	Low-birthweight live births in selected years 1970-2001 by mother’s race and Hispanic origin
Table 3-3	Infant mortality rates for babies born in the United States in 1996 and 2001 by mothers’ race and Hispanic origin
Table 3-4	Ten leading causes of death by sex and by race and Hispanic origin of women, 2000
Figure 3-4	Women smokers by age, 1990 and 2001
Figure 3-5	Overweight and obesity among women age 20-74 by race, 1976-80, 1988-94, and 1999-2000
Figure 3-6	Reported cases of certain sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, 1955-20004

Section Four: Employment
	Section Five: Table of Contents
	Introduction
Figure 4-1	Women in the labor force, 1950–2004
Table 4-1	Women in the labor force, 1975–2004
Table 4-2	Labor force participation by people age 55 and over by sex and age, 1990, 2000, and 2004
Table 4-3	Labor force participation rates by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, 1982, 1992, 2002, 2004, and projected 2012
Figure 4-2	Displaced long-tenured workers by sex, reason for displacement, age, and re-employment status as of January 2004
Table 4-4	Unemployment rates by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, 1990 and 2000–2004
Figure 4-3	Women’s unemployment rates by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, 1984–2004
Table 4-5	Labor force participation and unemployment rates by veteran status, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, 2004
Figure 4-4	Women employed year round and less than year round by full- or part-time status, 1983 and 2003
Figure 4-5	Employed workers by nonagricultural industry and sex, 2004
Table 4-6	Employed women by industry, 2002, 2003, and 2004
Figure 4-6	People employed in the educational services and health care and social assistance industries, by sex, and by race and Hispanic ethnicity of the women, 2003
Table 4-7	Private-sector, government, and self-employed workers by sex, 2004
Table 4-8	Private-sector, government, and self-employment in selected occupations by sex, 2004
Table 4-9	Labor union membership by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, 1994 and 2004
	Notes About 4-10a, 4-10b, and 4-11
Table 4-10a	Employed women and men by broad occupational classifications, 1993 and 2002
Table 4-10b	Employed women and men by occupation, 2002 and 2004
Table 4-11	Employed women by occupation, race, and Hispanic origin, 2004
Figure 4-7	Labor force participation by mothers with children under 18 by age of youngest child, 1984–2004
Table 4-12	Employment status of women with children under age 18 by age of youngest child, 1994 and 2004
Figure 4-8	Employment status of mothers with children under 18, by age of youngest child, 2004
Table 4-13	Primary child care arrangements for the preschool children of working mothers by race and Hispanic origin, spring 1999
Figure 4-9	Weekly hours worked by sex, 1980–2004
Figure 4-10	Median years of tenure with current employer for workers age 25 and over by sex, selected years 1983–2003

Section Five: Earnings and Benefits
	Section Five: Table of Contents
	Introduction
Figure 5-1	Median weekly earnings by sex, 1980–2004
Table 5-1	Median weekly earnings by sex, and female-to-male earnings ratios, 1980, 1985, 1995, and 1996–2004
Figure 5-2	Female-to-male earnings ratios among workers age 25-64 by age, 1980–2004
Table 5-2	Median weekly earnings by sex, and female-to-male earnings ratios among workers age 25-64 by age, 2004
Table 5-3	Median weekly earnings of women and men and female-to-male earnings ratios by race and Hispanic origin, 1980-2004
Table 5-4	Median weekly earnings of wage-and-salary workers in selected occupations by sex, 2004
Table 5-5	Women’s median annual earnings by educational attainment, 1993 and 2003
Figure 5-3	Median annual earnings of year-round, full-time workers by sex and race, 1976-2004
Figure 5-4	Median annual earnings of year round, full-time workers by sex and Hispanic origin, 1976–2004
Figure 5-5	Women workers in employer-provided pension plans and women workers with employer-provided health insurance by employer size, 2001
Table 5-6	Pension plan coverage by workers’ sex and work experience, and by race and Hispanic origin of women workers, 2002
Table 5-7	Year-round, full-time workers covered by health insurance through their own jobs by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, 2001
Figure 5-7	Health insurance coverage for people of all ages by sex and type of insurance, 1994 and 2004

Section Six: Economic Security
	Section Six: Table of Contents
	Introduction
Figure 6-1	Median family income by family type, 1993–2003
Table 6-1	Median family income by race, Hispanic origin, and family type, 1993, 1998, and 2003
Figure 6-2	Median income of families with children by family type, 1983–2003
Table 6-2	Public assistance, SSI, and earnings income received by women age 15 and over, 1996 and 2003
Table 6-3	Sources of personal income for women age 25–64 by race and Hispanic origin, 2003
Table 6-4	Sources of personal income for people age 65 and over by sex, and for women age 65 and over by race and Hispanic origin, 2003
Figure 6-3	Female Social Security recipients age 62 and over who are entitled as workers by entitlement status, selected years 1960–2003
Table 6-5	Dually entitled women among female Social Security recipients age 62 and over, 1975–2003
Figure 6-4	After-tax income compared with expenditures by women age 65 and older who lived alone, 1993/94–2002/03
Table 6-6	After-tax income compared with expenditures by people age 65 and older who lived alone, by expenditure purpose and sex, 2002/2003.
Table 6-7	Poverty rates of individuals by sex and age, 2003
Figure 6-5	Poverty rates of families with children by family type, 1975–2003
Table 6-8	Poverty rates of families by family type, presence of children, and race and Hispanic origin, 2003