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Dr. Robert Groves Appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal": Women in the Workforce

Census Bureau Director Robert Groves appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" on Friday, August 12, discussing women in the workforce.

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Presentation [PDF]

Slide 2: Subject Definitions [PDF]

Slide 3: Number of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers With Earnings by Sex: 1967 to 2009 [PDF]	Slide 4: Median Earnings of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Sex: 1960 to 2009 [PDF]	Slide 5: Ratio of Women's-to-Men's Median Earnings for Full-Time, Year-Round Workers: 1960 to 2009 [PDF]	Slide 6: Ratio of Women's to Men's Median Earnings in Selected Occupations for Full-Time, Year-Round Workers: 2007-2009 [PDF]	Slide 7: Usual Hours Worked by Sex: 1975-2010 [PDF]
Slide 8: Major Occupation Groups by Percentage of Mothers of Preschoolers Opting Out of the Labor Force: 2009 [PDF]	Slide 9: Percentage of Men and Women with a Bachelor's Degree or More, Ages 25 and Older: 1940 to 2010 [PDF]	Slide 10: Percentage of Men and Women with a Bachelor's Degree or More, Ages 25 to 29: 1940 to 2010 [PDF]	Slide 11: Percentage of Managers Who Are Women: 1940-2009 [PDF]	Slide 12: Percentage of Women-Owned Businesses:1997, 2002, and 2007 [PDF]
Slide 13: Percentage of Employees in Women-Owned Firms: 1997, 2002 and 2007 [PDF]	Slide 14: Percentage of Firms by Sales/Receipts Levels by Sex of Owner: 2007 [PDF]	Slide 15: Industries with Relatively High and Low Women Ownership [PDF]	Slide 16: Educational Attainment of Owners of Respondent Firms by Sex: 2007 [PDF]	Slide 17: Average Hours Worked Per Week by Owners of Respondent Firms by Sex: 2007 [PDF]

Census Bureau Reports:

Employment and Labor Force Participation

• Opting Out, Scaling Back, or Business-As-Usual? An Assessment of Women's Employment Hours in 92 Occupations
• Employment Status of Married-Couple Families by Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years: 2008 and 2009 [PDF]
• Labor Force Participation Rate for Selected Age Groups: 2008 and 2009 [PDF]

Earnings

• Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009 [PDF]
• Detailed Occupation and Median Earnings: 2008
• Men's and Women's Earnings for States and Metropolitan Statistical Areas: 2009 [PDF]
• Metros, Money, Manpower: Exploring and Gender Earnings Gap Across U.S. Labor Markets and Occupations

Other Reports and Information

• Educational Attainment in the United States: 2010 - Detailed Tables
• The Hours We Work: Are They Occupationally Determined?
• Fertility of American Women
  
• Women Business Owners

Sources for the information:

• American Community Survey
  
• Current Population Survey
  
• Survey of Business Owners

Economics and Statistics Administration Reports:

• Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being [PDF]
  (U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration)
• Women-Owned Businesses in the 21st Century

Note: The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases substantial information on working women:

• Women in the Labor Force [PDF]
• The Employment Situation -- July 2011 [PDF]

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