100 FACTS ON WOMEN & GIRLS

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2 100 FACTS ON WOMEN & GIRLS EDUCATION 1. Women represent 51% of the PhDs, 51% of business school applicants, 67% of college graduates, and more than 70% of 2012 Valedictorians in the US. (National Center for Education Statistics 2011) 2. In the academic year, women earned 57% of bachelor s degrees in all disciplines, 50% of bachelor s degrees in (Science & Engineering) S&E, and 61% of bachelor s degrees in non-s&e disciplines. (National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2013). 3. In 2011 women attorneys earned 87% of male salaries. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 4. In 2012, 47.3% of law school graduates were female, yet only 15% of equity partners and 5% of managing partners at US law firms were women. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership, 2013) 5. When a girl in the developing world receives seven years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children. (Center for Global Development, 2009) 6. Secondary school completion rates for adolescent girls is below 5% in 19 sub- Saharan African Countries. (Population Council Girl Effect Fact Sheet 2009) 7. More than 40 percent of women in Africa do not have access to basic education. (UN Women 2013) 8. The Asia-Pacific region is estimated to be losing $42-$47 billion annually because of restrictions on women s access to employment opportunities and another $16-$30 billion annually because of gender gaps in education. (UN Women 2012). 1

3 MEDIA / FILM 9. In 2011, women authors produced 60% of best sellers, yet earned approximately 27% of industry earnings. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership US Females accounted for 33% of all characters in the top 100 domestic crossing films in This represents an increase of 5% since 2002, when females comprised 28% of characters. (Status of Women in US Media 2013) 11. Looking at distribution statistics regarding the 250 top-grossing films released in 2013 only 6% were directed by women. For Independent and Festival released films, women accounted for 28% of directors working on documentaries and 18% of directors working on narrative features. (Center for the Study of Women in TV & Film 2014) 12. In 84 years only 4 women -- Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow -- have been nominated for an Academy Award for best director. One 1 has won. (Women in Hollywood 2012) 13. In the key behind-the-scenes role in entertainment television, women were 18% of the creators, 22% of the executive producers, 37% of the producers, 15% of the writers, 11% of the directors, 20% of the editors, and 4% of the directors of photography. (The Status of Women in the US Media 2012) 14. In front of the camera, 63.4% of those with bylines or on-camera appearances as anchors or reporters were men, while women were 36.1% (The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2014) 15. Looking at the number of speaking characters in film a gender imbalance for female speaking characters was found: family films 28.3%, primetime programs 38.9% and children s shows 30.8% (Status of Women in US Media 2013) 16. Women comprise 23.3% of leaders in journalism and media, with the lowest at 7.5% in radio and the highest at 55% in social media. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership US 2013) 17. In 2013 women were the majority of movie goers (52%) compared to 48% of men. (Theatrical Market Statistics 2013) 2

4 WOMEN ON BOARDS 18. In 2012, of the five best-paid executives at each of the Standard & Poor s 500 Index companies, 198 were women, or 8% of the total. Those high-achievers earned on average $5.3 million, 18% less than men according to data compiled by Bloomberg. (Bloomberg, 2013) 19. Female representation and compensation in CEO positions declines as budget size increases; for organizations with budgets over $50 million, women represent only 16% of leaders and experience a 23% wage gap. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership US 2013) 20. Businesses with women on their boards out-perform companies with all-male boards by 26%. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership US 2013) 21. Women account for 21.7% of directors serving on the boards of the largest banks in Europe. Compared to financial institutions in the Americas averaging 16.7% and those in Asia-Pacific at only 10.9%. (Market Watch 2012) 22. Among Fortune 500 companies in 2013, women accounted for 16.9% of board members, which represents no change from 2012 (16.6%). In both 2012 and 2013, less than one-fifth of companies had 25% or more women directors, while one-tenth had no women serving on their boards. (Catalyst Census: Fortune ) 23. In the top ten technology companies, those with a female CEO have 21% more women in leadership roles than those led by a male CEO. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) PHILANTHROPY 24. Women were more strategic in their charitable giving, with 78 percent creating an annual giving strategy and/or budget compared to 72 percent of men. (Bank of America Merrill Lynch Study of High Net-Worth Women s Philanthropy 2011) 3

5 25. Women reinvest 90% of their income in their families and communities, compared to men who reinvest only 30% to 40% of their income. (Groundbreakers: Ernst & Young 2009) 26. In nearly 90 percent of US high net worth households, women are either the sole decision maker or an equal partner in decisions about charitable giving. (Bank of America Merrill Lynch Study of High Net-Worth Women s Philanthropy 2011) 27. Being actively involved with an organization and its mission through volunteering is one of the most powerful motivators for women to give (women 66% versus men 50%). (Bank of America Merrill Lynch Study of High Net Worth Women s Philanthropy 2011) 28. Only one in five European foundations (out of the 145 surveyed) said that they explicitly named women or girls in their mission statement or grant making guidelines as a population group they seek to support. (Foundation Center - Untapped Potential: European Foundation Funding for Women and Girls 2011) 29. Women (82 percent) are more likely than men (71 percent) to be motivated to give when they are moved by how their gift can make a difference in the world, and because they want to set a good example for the next generation (women 44 percent vs men 25 percent). (Bank of America Merrill Lynch Study of High Net Worth Women s Philanthropy 2011) % of European foundations sampled reported that they engaged in at least some grant-making or programmatic activities that were specifically intended to benefit women and girls. (Foundation Center - Untapped Potential: European Foundation Funding for Women and Girls 2011) 31. Share of grant dollars identified as serving women and girls was less than 10%. (Foundation Center: Highlights of Foundation Giving Trends 2011) 32. In 2009, the median percentage of total grant monies allocated by foundation in support of women and girls was 5%. These findings are based on analyses of more than 9,100 grants awarded by 42 foundations. (Foundation Center - Untapped Potential: European Foundation Funding for Women and Girls 2011) 33. In 2006, the Gates Foundation awarded 43 grants totaling $241.7 million for purposes benefiting women and girls, accounting for just over 20% of all giving targeted to women and girls. (Accelerating Change for Women and Girls: The Role of Women s Funds 2009) 34. In 2012, Americans gave $ billion in charitable contributions: 6% from corporations, 7% from bequests, 15% from foundations, 72% from individual donors. (Giving USA 2013) 35. Total assets of US foundations in 2011 were $646.1 billion (Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates 2012) 4

6 WEALTH / PURCHASE POWER 36. Surveys show that women account for 80 percent of all consumer- expenditure decisions in the U.S., making 93 percent of food purchases and 65 percent of auto buys. (Bloomberg 2011) 37. Roughly one million women in the United States each have assets of at least $2 million, according to 2007 Internal Revenue Service data, the most recent available. (MSNBC Women Exert New Influence on Philanthropy 2012) % of American millionaires are women - by 2030 two thirds of US wealth will be under the control of women. (PAX World Investments: Women and Sustainability) 39. In 2012, 38.1% of working wives in the United States out earned their husbands. (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2013) 40. Women will inherit 70% of the $41 trillion in inter-generational wealth transfer expected over the next 40 years. (Boston College s Center on Wealth and Philanthropy 2009) 41. It is estimated that by 2014, women could earn about $18 trillion a year and control as much as $28 trillion of spending globally. (Bloomberg 2011) 42. In 2010, women accounted for more than half of China s estimated $15 billion in luxury sales (compared to 45% in 2008). (Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates The number of wealthy women in the U.S. is growing at a faster rate than that of men. In a two year period, the number of wealthy women in the U.S. grew 68%, while the number of men grew only 36%. (Forbes, 2012) 44. In the U.S. the number of women with 6-figure salaries is rising at twice the rate of men. (The Washington Post 2010) 45. The number of Ultra High Net-Worth Individuals (UHNWI) across the globe rose by 3% in This takes the number of people with more than US $30 million in assets to over 167,000 worldwide. (The Wealth Report 2014 Knight Frank) 5

7 46. Over 50% of high net worth individuals in the UK are women. (MDRC UK High Net Worth 2011) 47. There are 1,600 Ultra High Net Worth women in China with a combined net worth of US$180billion. (Wealth X Report, 2013) 48. Ultra wealthy Australian women have a net worth that is three times greater than their male counterparts: US $328million compared to US $102million (Wealth X Report, 2013) 49. As the wealthiest region, North America increased its HNWI wealth by 17% to reach US$14.88 trillion, though this growth was outpaced by Asia-Pacific, where HNWI wealth expanded by 18% to reach US$14.20 trillion. (Capgemini Worldwide World Wealth Report, 2014) POVERTY 50. Women make up 70% of the world s 1.5 billion poorest people. (The Global Poverty Project) 51. Women represent nearly 75% of tipped positions. The federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13/hour and has not changed in 20 years. (National Women s Law Center 2014) 52. Raising the minimum wage would close the gender wage gap by 5%. In states where the minimum wage is at or above $8/hour, the gender wage gap is 18.1 cents, whereas states where the minimum wage is $7.25/hour, the gender wage gap is 23.3 cents. (National Women s Law Center 2014) 53. Women work two-thirds of the world s working hours, produce half of the world s food, but earn only 10% of the world s income and own less than 1% of the world s property. (The Global Poverty Project) 54. Nearly 50 years after the Equal Pay Act became law, American women working full-time are paid just 77 cents to the dollar compared to their male counterparts. (New York State Pay Equity Coalition 2011) of the 10 lowest-paid occupations in the United States are restaurant occupations. Most of these occupations are majority female and pay median wages below the poverty line. (Tipped Over the Edge: Gender Inequity in the Restaurant Industry 2012) 6

8 56. The poverty rate among US women rose to 14.5% in 2010, up from 13.9% in 2009 the highest rate in 17 years. The extreme poverty rate among women was the highest ever recorded, climbing to 6.3% in 2010 from 5.9% in Extreme poverty means that your income is below half of the federal poverty line and by 2010, more than 7.5 million women had fallen into that dire category. (The Daily Beast 2011) 57. About 870 million people were estimated to suffer from chronic undernourishment in (in terms of dietary energy). This number represents 12.5% of the global population, or one in eight people. (Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations 2012) % of women workers are considered to be in vulnerable employment in sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia. (UN Women 2009) 59. Women in sub-saharan Africa collectively spend about 40 billion hours per year fetching water. This significantly impacts women s employment opportunities and time spent on household duties. (UNIFEM 2009) 60. On average women make up about 43 per cent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries - ranging from approximately 20 per cent in Latin America to 50 per cent in parts of Africa and Asia, and exceeding 60 per cent in a few countries. (FAO 2011) VIOLENCE / TRAFFICKING 61. Half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16. (Canadian Women s Foundation: Facts About Violence Against Women) 62. While an estimated 17 percent of women in the general population become victims at some point in their lives, a 2006 study of female veterans financed by the Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that between 23 percent and 33 percent of uniformed women in the US had been assaulted. (New York Times 2012) 63. According to the United Nations one of every three women on the planet will be physically or sexually abused in her lifetime. (UN Women 2011) % of sex trafficking cases and 20% of labor trafficking cases referenced U.S. citizens as victims. (Human Trafficking Trends in the United States Polaris Project) 7

9 65. On average, every six days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. In 2011, from the 89 police reported spousal homicides, 76 of the victims (over 85%) were women. (Canadian Women s Foundation: Facts About Violence Against Women 2012) 66. It is estimated that from 100 to 140 million girls and women have undergone some form of genital mutilation/cutting, and at least 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the practice every year. (UNFPA 2012) 67. Women and girls comprise 80 percent of the estimated 800,000 people trafficked annually, with the majority (79 percent) trafficked for sexual exploitation. (UN Women 2011) 68. As many as 1 in 4 women experience physical and/or sexual violence during pregnancy which increases the likelihood of having a miscarriage, still birth and abortion. (UN Women 2011) 69. Domestic violence alone costs approximately USD 1.16 billion in Canada and USD 5.8 billion in the United States. In Australia, violence against women and children costs an estimated USD billion per year. (UN Women 2011) 70. Among women aged between 15 and 44, acts of violence cause more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. (UN Women 2011) 71. According to UN estimates, about 2.5 million people from 127 countries have been trafficked to 137 countries for purposes such as forced labor, sexual exploitation, the removal of organs and body parts, forced marriages, child adoption and begging. (United Nations News Service 2008) 72. In 2010 the arrest rate for rape in the US was 24 percent, which was exactly what it was in the late 1970s. (The Daily Beast 2012) 73. Worldwide, up to 50 percent of sexual assaults are committed against girls under 16. (UN Women 2012) BUSINESS CASE 74. Women-owned hedge funds produced an average return of 9.1% compared with 5.8% among male-dominated funds, yet women manage only about 3% of the 9,000 hedge funds in the US. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 8

10 75. Women are starting businesses at a rate of 1.5 times the national average, which is a 20% increase over the last decade. 187 million women worldwide are currently starting or running a business enterprise. (Fast Company May 2012) 76. If women entrepreneurs in the US started with the same capital as men, they would add 6 million jobs to the economy in five years 2 million of those in the first year alone. (Scaling Up: Ernst and Young 2009) 77. In 2014 there were more than 9.1 million women-owned businesses in the United States (Compared to 8.6 million in 2013). These businesses generate more than $1.4 trillion in revenues, employ 7.9 million people and account for 30% of all enterprises. (State of Women-Owned Businesses Report 2014) 78. In Bangladesh 70 percent of female entrepreneurs reported being self-taught in skills needed to run a business compared to 44 percent of male business owners. (World Bank, 2012) MILITARY 79. From 1973 (when the draft ended) to 2010, the number of enlisted women rose from 2% to 14% and women commissioned officers from 4% to 17%. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 80. Women make up 11 percent of the officers in the top five officer categories today and 15 percent of all military officers. This represents significant progress into the top leadership positions, as in 1994 they represented 13 percent of all officers but less than 5 percent of the top five officer ranks. (The White House Project 2009) POLITICS 81. In the US Congress, women held only 18% of the seats and women of color only 5.5% (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 9

11 82. Men were twice as likely as women to report that they definitely plan to run for office at some point in the future (14 percent of men, compared to 7 percent of women). ( Girls Just Wanna Not Run, Women and Politics Institute 2013) 83. Within districts over time, roughly 9% more federal spending is brought home when there is a woman representing the district in Congress than when the same district is represented by a man. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 84. The U.S. ranks 79th in the world, behind 95 other countries, for percentage of women in elected political office. (The 2012 Project) 85. Statistics show that in countries where more women are in political office, there is less corruption, even in countries with the same income, civil liberties, education, and legal institutions. (50-50 Gender Balance; By Angela Z. Allen 86. Globally, there are 38 States in which women account for less than 10 per cent of parliamentarians in single or lower houses, as of January (UN Women 2014) TECH 87. Comscore says women are the majority of users of social networking sites and spend 30% more time on these sites than men; mobile social network usage is 55% female according to Nielsen. (Tech Crunch 2011) 88. Research studies show that 3 out of 5 moms blog, and 9 out of 10 moms list Facebook as their go-to social media destination. (Forbes 2012) 89. Among men and women with a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degree, about 40% of men work in a STEM field as opposed to 26% of women. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 90. Mobile devices allow moms to log in more frequently: Arbitron and Edison found that 46% of US social networking moms surveyed visited social networks multiple times per day in 2012, up from 37% in 2011 and 32% in (emarketer: Social Moms Lead the Way to Mobile 2012) 91. More women use the top social media channels than men in almost every network, except LinkedIn. 33% of US adult females use Pinterest, compared to 8% of men and 76% of US females use Facebook compared to 66% of men. (Ruby Media Corp 2014) 10

12 SPORTS 92. In the 2012 Olympics female athletes won 56% of all the US Olympic medals and 64% of the gold medals. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 93. Coaches of college women s Division I teams earned approximately 68% of what the coaches of male teams earn. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) 94. Women in Division I colleges comprise over 50% of the student body, yet receive only 32% of the athletic recruiting dollars and 37% of total money spent on athletics. (Benchmarking Women s Leadership 2013) HEALTH 95. Of the 500,000 women who die in childbirth every year, 99% live in developing countries. In other words, in developing countries, a girl or a woman dies every minute in giving birth. (The Global Poverty Project) 96. According to the World Health Organization, unsafe abortion is the cause of 70,000 maternal deaths each year or one in eight pregnancy-related deaths among women. That translates to seven women per hour. (The Guttmacher Institute 2012) woman dies in childbirth for every 100,000 live births in Ireland. 2,100 women die in childbirth for every 100,000 live births in Sierra Leone. (New York Times Magazine August 2009) percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub- Saharan Africa. (UN AIDS Report on the Global Epidemic, 2013) 99. The maternal mortality ratio in developing countries in 2013 was 230 deaths per 100,000 live births compared to 16 deaths per 100,000 live births in developed countries. (World Health Organization 2014) 100. Every day, approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. 99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries. (World Health Organization 2014) 11