Census Bureau News: Profile America Facts for Features: Women’s History Month: March 2015 (Resend)
Profile America Facts for Features: Women’s History Month: March 2015 (Resend)
National Women’s History Month’s roots go back to
March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over
working conditions. International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909, but
it wasn’t until 1981 that Congress established National Women’s History Week to
be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week
to a month. Every year since, Congress has passed a resolution for Women’s History
Month, and the President has issued a proclamation.
At 85 and older, the
approximate ratio by which women outnumbered men in 2013 (4.0 million to 2.0
million). Source: 2013 Population Estimates, Table PEPAGESEX: Annual Estimates of the
Resident Population for Selected Age Groups by Sex for the United States,
States, Counties, and Puerto Rico Commonwealth and Municipios: April 1, 2010 to
July 1, 2013
The percentage of females in the District of Columbia
in 2013 — higher than any state — followed by Delaware and Rhode Island at 51.6
percent and Alabama and New York at 51.5 percent. Source: 2013 Population
Estimates <http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-118.html>
Jobs
75.1 million
The number of females 16 and older who participated in the civilian labor force
in 2013. Women comprised 47.4 percent of the civilian labor force in 2013.
Source: 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table DP03 <http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_1YR/DP03>
63%
Percentage of social scientists who were women, the
heaviest representation of women among all STEM (science, technology,
engineering and math) fields. Among other STEM fields, approximately 14 percent
of engineers, 45 percent of mathematicians and statisticians and 47 percent of life scientists were women. The rates of
mathematicians and statisticians, and life scientists are not statistically
different from each other. Source: 2012 American Community Survey <http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-130.html>
Change in Women’s Representation
In Select Occupations19702006-2010
Registered nurses97.3% 91.2%
Dental assistants97.9%
96.3%
Cashiers84.2%
74.7%
Elementary and middle school
teachers83.9% 79.3%
Pharmacists12.1%
52.6%
Accountants24.6% 60.0%
Computer programmers24.2%
24.4%
Physicians and surgeons9.7%
32.4%
Lawyers and judges4.9%
33.4%
Police officers3.7% 14.8%
Civil engineers1.3%
12.7%
Source: 1970 Equal
Employment Opportunity Tabulation based on the decennial census and 2006-2010 Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation
based on the American Community Survey <http://www.census.gov/how/pdf/EEO_infographic.pdf>
13.6
Percent
of employed women 16 and over in 2013 (annual average) who worked in management,
business and financial related occupations, compared with 15.5 percent of
employed men in the same year. Source: 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year
Estimates, Table B24010 <http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_1YR/B24010>
The amount that female
year-round, full-time workers earned in 2013 for every dollar their male counterparts
earned. This ratio was not statistically
different from 2012. Source: Income and
Poverty in the United States: 2013, Table A-4
Number of women enrolled in undergraduate
college and graduate school in fall 2013. Women comprised 56.2 percent of all
college students (undergraduate and graduate). Source: School Enrollment
in the United States: 2013, Table 5 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/school/data/cps/2013/tables.html>
Percentage of female citizens 18 and older who reported voting in the 2012
presidential election. By comparison, 59.7 percent of their male counterparts
reported voting. Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of November
2012, Table 2 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2012/tables.html>
Average number of children that women age 40 to 44 had given birth to as of
2012, down from 3.1 children in 1976, the year the Census Bureau first began
collecting such data. Source: Current Population Survey, Historical Table
2 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/fertility/data/cps/historical.html>
Number
of stay-at-home mothers nationwide in 2014, compared with 211,000 stay-at-home
fathers. Source:
Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Historical Table SHP-1 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/files/shp1.xls>
Following is a list of observances
typically covered by the Census Bureau’s Facts for Features series:
Black History Month (February) Labor Day
Super Bowl Grandparents
Day
Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)Hispanic
Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15)
Women’s History Month (March)Unmarried and
Single Americans Week
St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)American
Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
(May)(November)
Older Americans Month (May)Veterans
Day (Nov. 11)
Mother’s DayThanksgiving
Day
Hurricane Season Begins (June 1)The Holiday Season (December)
Father’s Day
The Fourth of July (July 4)
Anniversary of Americans with
Disabilities Act (July 26)
Back to School (August)
Editor’s note: The preceding data were collected
from a variety of sources and may be subject to sampling variability and other
sources of error. Facts for Features are customarily released about two months
before an observance in order to accommodate magazine production timelines.
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