Source 2007 American Community Survey 22

Women would, therefore, earn 58 percent of the bachelorsand 60 percent of the masters degrees awarded during this school year. Inaddition, women would earn nearly 50 percent of first-professional degrees, suchas law and medical.Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Projections of EducationStatistics to 2017. BusinessesSource for the statements in this section:Women-Owned Firms: 2002 andCompany Summary: 2002 More than $939 billionRevenue for women-owned businesses in 2002. There were 116,985 women-ownedbusinesses with receipts of $1 million or more.

More than 7.1 millionNumber of people employed by women-owned businesses. Nearly one in three women-owned businesses operated in health care and socialassistance, and other services, such as personal services, and repair andmaintenance. Women owned 72 percent of social assistance businesses and justover half of nursing and residential care facilities. Wholesale and retail tradeaccounted for 38 percent of women-owned business revenue. 13Percentage of women-owned businesses in California, which had the mostwomen-owned businesses at 870,496.

New York was second with 505,077 or 8 percentof all businesses. Texas was third in number of businesses with 468,705,accounting for 7 percent of all businesses. Sixty-two percent of their male counterparts cast aballot.Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004 49Percentage of female citizens who voted in the 2006 congressional elections,compared with 47 percent of men.Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2006 Jobs59In 2007, the percentage of females 16 and older who participated in the laborforce, representing about 71 million women. The participation rate for males inthis age category was 73 percent.Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 38Percent of females 16 or older who worked in management, professional andrelated occupations, compared with 32 percent of males.Source: 2007 American Community Survey 22.5 millionNumber of female workers in educational services, health care and socialassistance industries More women worked in this industry group than in anyother. Within this industry group, 11.2 million worked in the health careindustry and 8.6 million in educational services.Source: 2007 American Community Survey 62Chances are that your taxes will be prepared by a woman, as this was thepercentage of tax preparers who were women in 2007. In addition, therewere about 14,000 women firefighters, 330,000 lawyers, 266,000 physicians andsurgeons, and 36,000 pilots.

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