The American Woman 2003-2004: Daughters of a Revolution - Young Women Today

Ninth Edition
Edited by Cynthia B. Costello, Vanessa R. Wight, and Anne J. Stone
Price: $24.95

The ninth edition in The American Woman series addresses the status of young women between the ages of 25 and 35. Contributors—all experts in their fields—explore the opportunities and challenges confronting the young women who are the daughters of the baby boom generation. The focus on young women brings into sharp relief how much has changed since the 1970s. The volume also contains a comprehensive statistical portrait of women of all ages, including user-friendly tables and figures that provide readers with the hard numbers underlying the trends shaping the experiences of women of all ages.

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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