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.)

10/84Percentage of American women who think they would do “better than average” in a fistfight: 27

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    Percentage who thought this in 1977: 19

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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)

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

11/94Percentage of American women who say their car is “more reliable” than most men they know: 49

Women’s Day (N.Y.C.)/Yankelovich Clancy Shulman (Westport, Conn.)