Saturday, June 2, 2007

Some Interesting Facts.......

This Is Your Life (If You Are a Woman)The Independent UK
Wednesday 08 March 2006
1% of the titled land in the world is owned by women.
A baby girl born in the UK is likely to live to 81 - but if she is born in Swaziland, she is likely to die at 39.
70% of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty are women and children.
21% of the world's managers are female.
62% of unpaid family workers are female.
9% of judges, 10% of company directors and 10% of top police officers in the UK are women.
Women comprise 55% of the world's population aged over 60 years old and 65% of those aged over 80.
£970,000 is the difference between lifetime earnings of men and women in the UK finance sector.
85 million girls worldwide are unable to attend school, compared with 45 million boys. In Chad, just 4% of girls go to school.
700,000,000 women are without adequate food, water, sanitation, health care or education (compared with 400,000,000 men).
Women in full-time jobs earn an average 17% less than British men.
Women in part-time jobs earn an average 42% less than British men.
67% of all illiterate adults are women.
1,440 women die each day during childbirth (a rate of one death every minute).
1 in 7 women in Ethiopia die in pregnancy or childbirth (it is one in 19,000 in Britain).
In the US, 35% of lawyers are women but just 5% are partners in law firms.
In the EU, women comprise 3% of chief execs of major companies.
12 is the number of world leaders who are women (out of 191 members of the United Nations).
Men directed 9 out of every 10 films made in 2004.

Friday, June 1, 2007