Title IX: The Journey Continues

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1.6 million women are military veterans; another 164,000 currently serve in the military

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

of members of national parliaments worldwide are women.

16%

Source: The White House Project

A young woman graduating from college today into a $30,000 starting salary will make $1.2 million less, over her lifetime, than the young man getting his diploma in line right behind her.

Source: The WAGE Project

According to an Oxygen/Markle Pulse poll, 56% of women agree with the statement that seeing successful female athletes makes them feel proud to be a woman.

56%

Source: Marketing to Women, March 2001

As of 2006, there are an estimated 766,502 privately-held, 50% or more women-owned firms in New York, generating more than $132 billion in sales and employing 740,578 people.

50%

Source: Center for Women's Business Research

Before Title IX, most medical and law schools limited the number of women admitted to 15 or fewer per school.

Source: Report Card on Gender Equity, National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, 1997