The American Woman 2001-2002:
Getting to the Top

Eigth Edition
Edited by Cynthia B. Costello and Anne J. Stone
Price: $16.95

“As we begin a new century, we can proudly point to the many prominent women who are exercising their leadership at the helm of America’s public and private institutions. Indeed, these leaders are showing us that women can—and will—crack the glass ceiling and make their way to ‘the top’” —Jean Stapleton

This eighth edition in the Women’s Research and Education Institute’s acclaimed American Woman series documents women’s different roads to success—the decisions they have made, the barriers they face, and the difference they make both at the top and to those women climbing behind them. The chapters in this volume tell of women’s progress in reaching leadership positions in politics, higher education, business, labor unions, and the military. They look at the special difficulties faced by minority women rising to the top. And there’s much more in The American Woman 2001–2002, including a comprehensive range of user-friendly statistics on the status of women.

"The American Woman is a wonderful book for thoughtful people who want to understand the conditions of their mothers and the future of their daughters." — Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy, U.S. Army (retired)

See our new project, The American Woman on the Web, for updated statistics. To order a copy, print the order form (PDF) and fax or mail your order to WREI. If you have questions before ordering, please contact our Lory Manning at 703-812-7990, ex. 12.

Some findings:

• Brides are getting older.
• More Women are Moonlighting.
• Sixty-five percent of women with pre-school-age children are in the workforce.
• Hispanic women continue to have the lowest earnings.
• Of all the workers, female or male, black women are the most likely to have health insurance through their jobs.
• At every age, females are more likely than their male contemporaries to be poor.
• Since the end of the draft in 1973, the percentage of enlisted women has grown almost nine-fold and the percentage of women officers has tripled.
• Women have outvoted men in every national election since 1980.

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