Daily
Statistics
Designed
to be thought-provoking and to encourage discussion.
 Hourly
wage of an exterminator: $10.25
Hourly salary of a childcare worker: $6.17
(Bureau
of Labor Statistics)
Why do
we pay somebody four dollars an hour more
to get rid of bugs than to take care of kids?
 Managed-care
health plans that routinely cover abortion: 9 in
10
Managed-care health plans that routinely cover contraception:
4 in 10
(The
Alan Guttmacher Institute)
Why are
insurance companies more willing to pay for this procedure
than to prevent it?
 Out
of 3000 men and women surveyed, percentage
who would sell sexual services for $100:
Men: 90%
Women: 9%
(Men's
Health Magazine)
What's
your price?
 Percentage
of all births that were out-of-wedlock: 26%
Percentage of of never-married women that are mothers: 20%
(US
Census Bureau most recent stats-1994)
Is it
important for mothers to be married? Do these numbers
seem high or low to you?
 Median
age of women marrying for the first time:
1970: 20.8
1994: 24.5
Percentage
of women aged 30-34 who have never married:
1970: 6%
1994: 20%
(US
Census Bureau)
How old
were you when you first got married? If you've never married,
are you still hoping you will?
Is it important to you?
 Average
number of performance days lost per high-school cheerleading
injury each year : 28.8
Average number lost per high-school football injury : 5.6
(Harper's
Index)
Did you
envy your high-school cheerleaders? Should we be encouraging
our daughters to participate in sports instead?
 Average
amount by which the household income of a thin woman exceeds
that of a fat woman: $6,710
Percentage
of people who regain diet-related weight loss within three
years: 95%
(New
England Journal of Medicine, September 30, 1993; International
Journal of Obesity, #13, 1989)
Are heavier women discriminated against in the job market?
Have you lost weight, only to gain it back soon after?
 Percentage
of nine-year-old girls who said that they "felt happy
the way I am": 60%
Percentage of teenage girls who said that they "felt
happy the way I am": 29%
(1988
study of the psychological development of teenage girls
by Harvard professor Carol Gilligan)
Do you
feel happy the way you are? Do you think your daughter does?
Percentage
of American women who consider themselves pretty: 13%
Percentage of American men who consider themselves
handsome: 29%
(How
you Rate: Women, by Tom Biracree, Dell Publishing,
1984)
How do
you define beauty? What's beautiful about you?
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