Just over 49% of nonfarm workers are women, according figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2008.
Young women, with figures that would make Venice Beach babes jealous, roll up the sides of their swimming bottoms for a better suntan, blurring the line between public and nudist beach.
Most of its residents are migrants who have come to Delhi from impoverished rural areas, widely seen as the cradle of regressive attitudes to women, where figures show rapes are commonplace but rarely reported because of the social stigma.
"It would be expensive to do, " though, he notes, and if it were based on a survey rather than, say, tracking and testing women over time it could produce under-reported figures, as some women will be reluctant to tell strangers they have been raped and have become pregnant.
Some of these women were prominent media figures, like Logan.
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Look at the group photos from the endless European summits and it is not lost on anyone that two of the most important figures are women, operating in a largely male world.
It is an evolving testimony to the lives of Afghan women working as journalists, producers, managers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, human rights activists and parliamentarians, serving as an archive of Afghan women leaders and public figures.
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This general doubling of female participation is incredibly significant for total family income figures and for women able to support themselves.
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In this country, we have great actors, but not these kinds of great actors men and women who can play historical figures and hold to formal syntax without losing their sense of play.
Germany's example is especially instructive: Although the state's family policies are now among the most generous in Europe -- a parent who stays home with a child receives 67% of his or her current net income for up to 12 months -- they have failed to boost the birthrate or reverse the figures for childless women.
These figures show how much women have to gain from setting up their own business.
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Carter and Christine Silva followed up with their findings in a Harvard Business Review article, which also reveals that women who proactively network with influential figures get ahead.
The original Channel 4 report alleged that some of the women had reported the allegations to figures in the party but it was not taken any further or their claims were not taken seriously.
The national average of all women board directors is half that, or 15.7%, according to December 2010 figures from Catalyst, an organization that studies women in the workplace.
CareerBuilder also broke down the results by gender and industry, and found that men were nearly twice as likely as women to say that they would need to earn six figures to consider themselves successful (32% of men compared to 17% of women).
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The pieces on show in Salford include around a dozen "mannequin" figures - drawings of young women in tight corsets and high heels.
The latest figures also show that fewer women are smoking and drinking alcohol during pregnancy and more are taking recommended supplements - folic acid and vitamin D.
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Latest figures suggest a fifth of women in England smoke.
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Mr Thompson's comments were made during a NewstalkZB interview on 23 June, during a debate on recent figures that showed New Zealand women were paid about 12% less than men.
MSPs also said relationships between female prisoners and their children had to be supported in the wake of "alarming" figures showing about half of women inmates' children were sent to jail as adults.
Bernstein says that while the numbers of women struggling with anxiety disorders is larger than it is for men, the figures for alcohol and substance abuse for men is higher than for women.
Official figures suggest that 64, 000 women have been rescued from forced marriages since 1990.
She estimates that this means current data on violence against women may be only half of the real figures.
The figures show that the percentage of women in the executive workforce now stands at 57%.
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Male public figures who make chauvinistic comments about women are now immediately placed in the public stocks of social media.
He said a five-strong panel of party figures - including at least three women - would be assembled to conduct a "thorough and in-depth" investigation into the allegations.
He said a five-strong panel of party figures - including at least three women - would be assembled to conduct a "thorough and in-depth" investigation into the allegations levelled against Lord Rennard.
Writers vied to see who could heap the most scorn on the allegedly boring conformity of that receding decade, drawing supercilious caricatures of middle-class men and women of the era as superficial, plastic figures.
Figures show the average age at which women in Britain give birth is now 30.
Lung cancer rates have more than doubled for women over 60 since the mid-1970s, figures show.
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