- Women earn 78 cents for every dollar a man makes
- Only 17% of the seats in Congress are held by women.
- One out of every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
- One out of every six women will be sexually assaulted and/or raped in her lifetime.
- Although 48% of law school graduates and 45% of law firm associates are female, women make up only 22% of federal-level and 26% of state-level judgeships.
- Even in the 10 top paying jobs for women, females earn less than men; only one career -- speech pathology -- pays the same regardless of gender.
- It's not any better at the top. America's top female CEOs earn, on average, 33 cents for every dollar earned by a male CEO.
- There's nothing in the U.S. Constitution that guarantees women the same rights as a man. Despite attempts to add an Equal Rights Amendment, there is no guarantee of equal rights for women in any legal document or any piece of legislation.
- Despite previous attempts to ratify a UN treaty guaranteeing the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, the U.S. refuses to support an international bill of rights for women signed by nearly every other nation on the planet.
- The World Economic Forum's 2009 report on the Global Gender Gap ranked 134 countries for gender parity. The U.S. didn't even make the top 10 -- it came in at number 31.
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