3/90Chances that an American woman is married, has children, and says she has a “successful career”: 2 in 5

Time-CNN poll, Yankelovich Clancy Shulman (Westport, Conn.)

2/90Average number of days a divorced middle-aged American woman spends sick in bed each year: 14

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

    Average number of days a married middle-aged woman spends sick in bed each year: 7

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

9/91Percentage of American women who say they have listened in on their husband’s phone calls: 28

The Day America Told the Truth, by James Patterson and Peter Kim (Prentice Hall Press, N.Y.C.)

11/98Average percentage by which an American woman’s out-of-pocket medical spending exceeds that of an American man: 68

Women’s Research &Education Institute (Washington)

12/04Percentage of 30-year-old American men who were married, self-supporting fathers in 1960 and 2000, respectively: 65,31

American Sociological Association (Washington)