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Then and Now: Women's progress, 1960-present
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92 average of women's (ages 16-29) weekly earnings as a percentage of men's in 1993
11 percentage of corporate boards with women in 1973
72 percentage of corporate boards with women in 1998
10 the number of times as fast women?s wages grew between 1960 and 1994 compared to men's
Source[s]: Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (Independent Women's Forum, 1999); "2001 Statistical Abstract of the United States" (U.S. Census Bureau).
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