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Show FACT BOOK-1972 20 • 5.4 million families were headed by women in 1969; those headed by a fully-employed mother were three times as likely to be living on less than $5,000 per year as were male-headed families," • In earned 1969, less than 5 per cent of all fulltime female workers $10,000 per year, compared with 35 per cent of all male over workers. 8 • Women with four years of college education made only than men with an eighth grade education," slightly more • Women make up only 9 per cent of all the full professors in only 7 per cent of all physicians, only 3 per cent of all the nation, 1 per cent of all federal the U.S. Senate.t? lawyers, only • judges, and only 1 per cent of At the other end of the wage scale, 14.4 per cent of women, but per cent of men, earned less than $3,000.11 only 5.7 • Household employees, the overwhelming majority of whom are women, are excluded from the federal minimum wage law and from state minimum wage laws with the exceptions of New York, Massa chusetts and Wisconsln.P 1968, of the estimated 2.2 million employees in domestic services, 86 per cent earned less than $1.00 per hour." • In In low-paid jobs in low-wage industries, the present federal minimum wage of $1.60 an hour results in many women earning far less for a 40-hour work week than they could receive if they quit • their jobs and went gram.t- on the Aid for Dependent Children welfare pro • Sex discrimination is clearly present even in government em ployment, which accounts for more than 20 per cent of the labor force. Although women constituted 34 per cent of all full-time white collar Federal Civil Service Employees in 1967, they filled more than 62 per cent of the four lowest grades and only 2.5 per cent or less of the four highest grades." • a Although year or In 36 there more, are some 10,000 federal jobs that pay $26,000 only about 150 (1.5 per cent) are held by women.v agencies or governmental units there 1,209 super-grade [obs.t" • • are no women - filling In government departments and agencies which do employ at high levels (GS-17 and higher), the record is not much women |
