12 Stats About Working Women

In this month's women's history, we are investigating women's contribution to American labor force. Here are some remarkable statistics we gathered!

More than 39% of women are engaged in women's occupation, which accounts for at least three quarters of the total number of employees.

Women veterans tend to continue to provide services to the labor force. About three-thirds of people provide services to the country

70% of mothers with children under the age of 18 are participating in the labor force and over 75% of mothers are working full time.

Currently, 40% of families under the age of 18 are primary or single income of the mother, while in 1960 it is 11%.

Since World War II, the proportion of women in the workforce of the United States rose from 32.7% in 1948 to 56.8% in 2016.

Since 1970, the proportion of women with college degrees in the labor force has nearly quadrupled. In 2016, more than 40% of women have a university degree, compared with 11% in 1970.

The scope of female workers' careers has also expanded, and women have made significant progress in occupational and administrative careers. In 2016, more than one third of lawyers were women in 1974.

Despite these advances, the proportion of women in STEM occupations is still inadequate, and the proportion of women in computer workers has declined since 1990.

Currently, women's unemployment rate is 8%, less than 0% in November 2010. (Source)

Since 1920, the Women's Affairs Bureau has been working to address the challenges and obstacles faced by women. Data plays an important role in helping us understand these challenges. Please check our data and statistics page for the latest statistics on working women.

Let women have power. Startup keeps all metrics from user statistics to burn rate. Defend female statistics: talk about how many people you hire, how many people are promoted, and how often you talk with them. Pay attention to the tendency to hire a large number of women, but it is limited to mid-level and low-level leaders. I warn young women experts to pay attention to this when looking for a company job. If you do not know the proportion of the highest level of women in your company or organization (unfortunately, 30% is good so far), this is a gender discrimination workplace. This is not a pipe problem, it is not evil of Silicon Valley that we deal with. It is a different workplace by gender

Wherever I see, I see statistics on the number of our blacks or too many people in the presence state that we think that it is a hot topic. Statistics on a list of few women and selected occupations within STEM. There is an unexplainable explanation of gender wage disparities that has been repeatedly exposed by Harvard University (especially Harvard Women Professor) and Forbes (an article written by another female scholar).

You know the statistics: a lady-led company provides better revenue. Fortune 500 company, which has female executives, has performed very well in terms of finance. People enthusiastic about investing in women quote this content all day. However, considering that there are very bad people to procure venture capital funds to invest only in women, limited partners still do not seem to have purchased "female investment" as the reason for investment. Of course, if you look at the statistics of major venture capital, you can see that the industry as a whole does not have much interest in any kind of parity yet.

Salesforce Ventures' female venture capitalist Meredith and I are working on a workbench focused on enterprise software companies, so there is no need for statistical information to communicate experience or observations. Like many other women in the field of corporate technology, we are usually a few women attending meetings, board meetings, meetings (I am when I meet other ladies). I say women are having bigger problems with corporate B2B technology if women of technology are problem (and female founder is only 17% of technology startup). , Members of the junior team, and even venture capital companies are still very low