Title IX: The Journey Continues
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A young woman graduating from college today into a $30,000 starting salary will make $1.2 million less, over her lifetime, than the young man getting his diploma in line right behind her.
Source: The WAGE Project
According to an Oxygen/Markle Pulse poll, 56% of women agree with the statement that seeing successful female athletes makes them feel proud to be a woman.
Source: Marketing to Women, March 2001
Asian women owned employer firms have the highest survival rate of all women-owned firms: 77% of their businesses in operation in 1997 remained in business in 2000.
Source: Center for Women's Business Research
During retirement women's median annual social security benefits reach only 70% of mens benefits
Source: Institute for Women's Policy Research
Forty-two percent of online game players are female.
Source: The Entertainment Software Association
In 1967, Muriel "Mickey" Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to head one of its member firms.
Source: www.infoplease.com

