Facts About American Women Today Hyde, J. S. (2002) Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Women

In the 106th Congress, the last of the twentieth century, women were 9 of 100 senators and 56 of 235 members of the House.

Of the 100 largest cities in the United States, 16 had women mayors in 1999, including San Diego (Susan Golding) and Minneapolis (Sharon Sayles Belton).

Women make up 40 percent of executives, administrators, and managers in American business. Among the Fortune 500 companies, women constitute 11 percent of the directors but fewer than 1 percent of CEOs (4 of the 500 CEOs are women).

Whereas in 1978 women between the ages of 25 and 34 earned 66.2 cents for every dollar earned by men, in 1998 women in that same age range earned 82.9 cents for every dollar earned by men.

Today, women are equaling or surpassing men in education. In 1998, among people between the ages of 25 and 34, 28.7 percent of the women had a college degree or higher, compared with 26.2 percent of men.