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Show +> ) I I hold is a woman. seats.out of a In.the House twelve women the 92nd Congress one Senator one 1S a black and the 91st 1n served only Congress than more ssible 435' this is only two federal jugeships by Preidential appointment. in 1969 eleven women were occupyng 370 ,n 1965 to 318 ln 1967, and now from decllned women in state legislatures le number of officials about 18 are women. In a 1970 CBS list of 250 leading black public about 300. 1 an. Earl; cands at MOSTLY SHE IS MARRIED • There are 22.1% single women, 3.5% divorced women are married. Sixty-two per cent of American Most i dowed. girls marry early, on an average just before their and not remarried, and 12.5% w between 14 and 19 years of age are married. all girls 21st birthday, but 26.9% of in divorce or separation) was almost The rate for disrupted marriages (those marriages ending 20 and 24, the number of disrupted between women For young 10% of all married women in 1970. 1960. since about 25% mar:iages has icreased SHE MAY LIVE ALONE independent individuals away from relatives, in residences, them living alone. The great majority are white, 80%, and most of sharing an apartment, the in s nov/i The bIJO wh He age groups ng qrowth fi nd accornmodati ons in the 1 a rge citi es The number of "one-person" households, or persons inner city are ado les.cents and the over 65s. Since 1962 the living alone, has increased for both sexes by 43%ver the last eight years. whereas the soared has alone 84%, are by who 35 and 14 between living number of young people same period. the for 24% has this only in by grown number' of actual age group persons Over nine million women live as or . _ SHE NAY HEAD HER OWN HOUSEHOLD in the More than one family in ten is headed by a woman; there are 5.6 million such families women. or divorced 46% and separated widows by United States, of which 43% are headed by Abou(two million of these families are below the poverty level. While the number of poor families families headed by men dropped in half between 1959 and 1969, the number of poor headed by women has remai ned vi rtua lly unchanged. The hardest hit family is the one headed by a black woman who works; 45% of these families Three-fifths of the live in ,poverty compared to 16% of those headed by a male black worker. financial-assistance. some need 18 under children 3.4 million families headed by a woman with OCCASIONALLY HER NAME IS SPANISH For the first time the Bureau of the Census has compiled some statistics for persons in the United States of Spanish origin. Numbering about 9.2 million altogether, or 5% of the popu1 ati on, 556. are of Mex i can ori gin, 15.8% Puerto Ri can, 6% Cuban, 6% Central or South Ameri can II and 17% are "other Spani sh • white collar account for 3.6% of the total fmale labor force, but only 41% hold Their family income is $5,641 compared to $9,794 for to 61% for other women. fJhilte f ami l i es and $5,999 for Neg ro farnil i es and thei r unemployment rate is more than one an a half times that of other women. Spanish women jobs compared Med'j an School the mother IMgue of 6.7 million persons and as current language of 4.6 million the second sons, making Spanish '" a gOa"§e in the COl 'anish was reported . • .ed 'tates. as Yea rs . COIP 1 eted by Total population White Cuban Central or South American Black Puerto Rican Mexican Persons 25 and over 12.2 12.2 12. 1 11. 9 10. 1 8.4 8.3 I |
