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Twenty Years Older. Just where is American woman today? In a statistical overview, she is nearly 106 million strong, at the median age 30 and with a bit more than a twelfth-grade education. She is likely to be married (61.5%). She makes up more than a third of the national work force, but according to a Department of Labor survey, she generally has a lower-skilled, lower-paying job than a man does. In many jobs she does not get equal pay for equal work. (Her median earnings have actually declined relative to men.) In a recession...
There are other opinions, however. Black women are the lowest-paid members of the work force; a black man with an eighth-grade education has a higher median income than a black woman with some college education. Los Angeles Black Activist Althea Scott says, "White women liberationists talk about the difficulties of getting into graduate or professional school. We talk about getting jobs in the five and ten. We're on the nitty-gritty level. Just let black women struggle at their own rate. They'll see they are women." Spanish-speaking women are also somewhat alienated from...
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While the median black family income rose by 50%, from $4,001 in 1960 to $6,191 in 1969, for example, the median white income increased from $7,252 to $9,794. More blacks than ever finished college during the '60s, but the high school dropout rate for black males in 1970 was 15.9% v. 6.7% for whites. A white with an eighth-grade education earned more in 1969 ($7,018) than a black with a high school diploma ($6,192). Unemployment for nonwhites in 1970 was 8.2% compared with 4.5% for whites, although for the first time since...
...force an even more ominous message into all cigarette ads: "Warning: Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Health and May Cause Death from Cancer, Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Bronchitis, Pulmonary Emphysema and Other Diseases." Tobacco men are also being hit by rising taxes, which now account for 19? of the median U.S. price of 39? a pack. Last year seven states raised cigarette taxes, and almost every state has a legislator calling for still further boosts...