12/92Percentage change, since 1970, in the number of American women working more than one job: +390

U.S. Department of Labor

    Percentage change in the number of men working more than one job: +19

U.S. Department of Labor

7/90Percentage of American women who said in 1970 that men were “basically kind, gentle, and thoughtful”: 67

Virginia Slims-Roper Organization poll (N.Y.C.)

    Percentage who say this today: 51

Virginia Slims-Roper Organization poll (N.Y.C.)

9/90Change, since 1972, in the percentage of employed American men who have an employer-financed pension plan: -5

Social Security Administration (Baltimore)

    Change in the percentage of employed American women who do: +5

Social Security Administration (Baltimore)

6/85Percentage of American women who said they liked sports cars in 1976: 39

Needham, Harper & Steers (Chicago)

    Who say that today: 56

Needham, Harper & Steers (Chicago)

11/98Estimated number of American women arrested for child abuse since 1977 after using drugs or alcohol while pregnant: 200

Women’s Law Project (Philadelphia)

    Years in prison to which a South Carolina woman was sentenced for this in 1992: 8

Women’s Law Project (Philadelphia)