Databank (Statistics showing women's role in society)

Percentage of male golfers who say they have thrown a club in anger: 45 of female golfers who say so: 18

Percentage of the food eaten by male sea otters that they steal from females, according to U.S. researcher Marianne Riedman: 33

Ratio of the number of men charged with all criminal offences to women in 1983: seven to one in 1993: five to one

Ratio of the number of women charged with violent offences to men in 1981: 9 to 1 in 1993: 6.5 to 1

Average number of hours women and girls in developing countries spend per week drawing and carrying water according to a UN report: five to 17

Percentage of families in some rural areas of China who have bought or sold wives according to the official Legal Daily newspaper: 17 Average price paid for a wife in China: 1.5 year's pay for a state worker

Percentage of small businesses in Canada that are owned and operated by women: 39 Percentage of all income generated by small businesses in Canada that is collected by women: 28 Percentage of female entrepreneurs in Canada who report having trouble getting financing: 41.9 Percentage of men reporting the same thing: 36.6

Percentage of Members of Parliament elected during the Mulroney years (1984 - 93) who were women: 9 Percentage of ministers in Mr. Mulroney's cabinets who were women: 20 Percentage of Members of Parliament voted in in the 1993 federal election who were women: 18 Percentage of ministers in Prime Minister Jean Chretien's cabinet who are women: 22 Number of years, at the current rate of increase, before women make up one third of the Members of Parliament: 40

Number of women worldwide who will die of reproductive problems, most of which are preventable, according to an estimate of the World Watch Institute: 100 million

Estimated number of women in the Third World who want access to birth control but don't have it: 300 million Leading causes of death among Third World women aged 15 to 49: complications of pregnancy and unsafe abortion

Canada's rank in 1994 in female education among 116 countries: second

France's rank: first

Location of the first feminist university in the world: Loten, a quiet town in southern Norway

Proportion of illiterate people in the world who are women: about two thirds.

Number of times more likely boys are to receive secondary education in most of Africa compared to girls: twice

Amount of money the Canadian International Development Agency committed to primary education for girls in 15 African countries in 1994: $15 million

Drop in fertility and child mortality that results from an additional year in school for a girl in Africa, according to a World Bank study: 10%

Increase in family income brought by an additional year in school: 10% to 20%

Percentage of young women surveyed in Canada in 1990 who said their appearance was very important to them: 95

Percentage who were satisfied with their looks: 13

Month and year in which South Korea got its first female mayor: April 1994

Month and year in which the Swiss corporation (a type of municipal government) of Oberallmeind voted to continue to bar women from membership: January 1993

Percentage of married women in Canada active in the paid labour force in 1941:5

Percentage by which the labour force participation rate among married women increased in the decade 1981 to 1991: 21

Percentage that university - educated women in Canada earned in 1992, compared with university - educated men: 74.2 for women who hadn't completed high school compared to men with similar education: 67.3 for married women working full time: 66.6 for widowed, divorced and separated women: 76.9 for women over 55: 67 under 24: 93

Percentage of people who said no when asked, "In your opinion, do women in Canada get as good a break as men?", in 1993: 56 in 1986: 53

Percentage of people who said they had fewer opportunities than men in 1994: 63

Percentage of men who shared the same assessment: 49

The best place in the world to live in 1992, according to a United Nations report: Canada The best place in the world to be a woman: Sweden Canada's rank in terms of gender disparity: 9th

Globally, proportion of world's work done by women, according to the United Nations: two - thirds Percentage of world's food produced by women: 50 Percentage of global income received by women: five Percentage of assets owned by women, globally: one

Percentage increase, according to the Vanier Institute of the Family in Ottawa, in the number of low - income families in Canada if women stopped working: 62

In 1990, percentage of two - income families in Canada with children under 19: 71

Nationwide, percentage of working parents -- both men and women -- who feel at least some guilt that their work interferes with home life: 60

Number of children in Canada aged 12 and under whose mothers were in the workforcein 1990: 3 million in 1985: 2.6 million in 1971: 1.4 million

Number of licenced day - care spaces in 1990: 321,000 in 1985: 298,000

Percentage of men and women in a 1994 Quebec public opinion survey who said they favour the work of the women's movement: 85

Percentage who believe men have better jobs: 76 better salaries: 86 that power is held by men: 88 that household tasks are performed generally by women: 79 that equal pay for work of equal value would be the best way to change the disadvantages faced by women: 66

Year in which women, at their current rate of progress, will hold equal managerial posts with men: 2495 in which they will hold equal political and economic status: 2970

Value of unpaid household work in Canada in 1992: between $211 - and $319 - billion as a percentage of gross domestic product: 30 to 46

Year the Presbyterian Church of Australia convicted theologian Peter Cameron of heresy for giving a sermon disputing the Bible's (negative) stance on the ordination of women: 1992

THE THINGS WE SAY...

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." Timothy Leary

It's been said that women will have won real equality in the workplace when mediocre women can rise as high and earn as much as mediocre men.

Male heckler: "Don't you wish you were a man?" Agnes Macphail: "Yes. Don't you?" Attributed to Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons

If there were enough women in Parliament, the health ministry would become more important than that of finance." Dr. Gordon Bates, director of the Health League of Canada

I would rather run against two men than against one woman." Member of Parliament Lt. - Col. William F. Cockshutte in 1918

There can be no sustainable development for anyone without development for women." 1992 United Nations report

Look, women aren't morally superior. We can be as stupid as some men are. I just think we should have 50% of the power." Swedish columnist and feminist Maria - Pia Boethius

First comes the man, then the cow, then the woman." Proverb still in use today in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden

Everbody recalls with horror and sadness the night of 6 December 1989. But what has happened to all the nice promises that followed the drama, promises of equality, peace, and love? Sexism is still alive and every day we learn of another case of conjugal violence. Violence against women has never been so strong."

Statement from the parents of 14 women murdered at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on the fifth anniversary of the massacre

Figures not transcribed Consult original publication

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