Alverno College Research Center for Women and Girls: 2010 Update to the Status of Girls in Wisconsin Report
- In 2009, nearly one-half (47%) of Wisconsin high school girls believed that bullying and harassment are problems in their school.
- Wisconsin’s teen birth rate has decreased significantly, from 42 births per 1,000 teens in 2006 to 31 births per 1,000 in 2008.
Cream City Foundation: Corporate Equity Report 2010
- The Human Rights Campaign rated Wisconsin’s “corporate equality” to LGBT employees a 51. The national average was 87.
Feminist.com
- Somewhere in America a woman is battered, usually by her intimate partner, every 15 seconds.
- More than half of all rapes of women in the US occur before age 18; 22% occur before age 12.
Half the Sky
- The best way to fight poverty and extremism is to educate and empower women and girls.
Milwaukee Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF)
- In Milwaukee, an African American baby is 3 times as likely to die in the first year of life as a white infant.
US Census Bureau
- On average, women in the U.S. still earn 77 cents to every dollar earned by men.
Women’s Fund of Oshkosh
- Single women with children in Wisconsin earn a median annual income of $21,100.
Women’s Funding Network
- By 2011 there will be 2.6 million more women than men studying in American universities, yet women make up only 30% of business school students.
- In the Women’s Funding Network there are 166 women’s funds working together to build on $535 million in collective assets and more than $65 million in annual grantmaking.