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| According to the report "Women's Earnings in 2008", which kind of American woman suffers least from the gender pay gap? | Women's History and Facts
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A woman who has never married compared to a man who has never married. The report, published in 2009, declared that overall, women's income was 80% of that earned by men. This was up from 62% thirty years earlier. However, there were considerable differences in this wage gap depending on the demographic that the woman fell into.
Women aged between 35 and 44, on average earned 77% of the amount that men of the same age earned. For older women the gap was greater, although it was smaller for the 25-34 age group and smallest, with a gap of just 9%, for the 16-24 group.
The smallest gap came when women who had never married were compared against their male equivalents. On average the women in this group earned more than 94% of the salary commanded by their male equivalents, although the average wage for unmarried men and woman is significantly smaller than that of married men and women.
| What President's wife pleaded that he should 'remember the women' when devising policy and legislation? | Women's History and Facts
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Abigail Adams. She was an early feminist and well aware of the need for Women's Rights.
53 cents. African-American women did a bit better. They earned {$64} cents for every dollar earned by a white male.
Frances Perkins. She was Secretary of Labor during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.
Mary Baker Eddy. Mary Baker Eddy is the only woman to found an American based religion.
Jane Addams. Hull House was a refuge for the poor women and children in the Chicago slums. Jane Addams was a pacifist, and this caused her reputation to suffer. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
A ' New York World ' reporter. Nellie Bly was a reporter for the newspaper 'New York World'. She began an around-the-world voyage to beat the record of Phineas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's novel. She returned 72 days later setting a record time.
Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson had great concern over the damaging effects of pesticides and other poisons on our crops.
| Who was the congresswoman from Michigan who successfully added sex discrimination as a resolution in the 1962 Civil Rights Act? | Famous Women's Claim to Fame
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Martha Wright Griffith. Griffith served from 1955-1975. She fought and won important victories for equal rights for women and minorities.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was an author and daughter of a minister. She wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in 1852.
Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller still holds the position today. She has brought about important programs including improved health and education programs.
Sacajawea. Sacajawea was the only Shoshone woman and guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition 1804-1806. She served as an interpreter-liaison with other tribes. Captured as a child by Mandan, she lived most of her life with them.
| Who was the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at the convention of a major political party? | Famous Women's Claim to Fame
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Barbara Jordan. Jordan was the first and only African-American legislator in the Texas senate. She was a strong defender of the poor. Jordan was the keynote speaker at the Democrat National Convention.
Antonia Novello. Novello raised national awareness in the medical profession about domestic violence.
| Barbara Bush, wife of President George Bush and mother of President George W. Bush, once said "War is not nice." What was Barbara Bush's maiden name? | Famous Women Named "Barbara"
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Pierce. Barbara Bush also said, "I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time."
| Barbara Bach had a fairly satisfying acting career, but her biggest claim to fame was her marriage to ex-Beatle Ringo Starr. They met on the set of what movie? | Famous Women Named "Barbara"
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Caveman. Ringo and Barbara tied the knot in 1981. They have no children together, although both have children from previous marriages.
| News professional Barbara Walters was recently inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame, celebrating a life of news reporting from "The Today Show" to the "ABC Evening News". During the 1970, she was parodied on the television show "Saturday Night Live" by which actress? | Famous Women Named "Barbara"
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Gilda Radner. Barbara Walters once said of herself: "I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty."
| In 2000 the Historic Sites and Monuments of Canada granted this woman recognition and she became a Canadian National Historic Person. Who is she? | Famous Canadian Women
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Shanawdithit. Shanawdithit died in captivity in 1829, and tragically she was the last of her people. With her death, in 1829, the Beothuks became extinct. They were a small, family orientated tribe; theirs was a hunter-gatherer society who had lived along the shores of Newfoundland Island. When European settlers came to this area they began to hunt the Beothuks. When Shanawdithit was born in 1801 her people already were almost extinct, from disease and slaughter. Towards the end of her life Shanawdithit, along with two other women (the last three remaining people of an entire race), were captured and held in captivity. The two other women died shortly after being captured. Shanawdithit was then taken into a private home where she helped document the life and traditions of her people. On June 6, 1829, she died of tuberculosis while still in captivity.
| Who is the heroine commemorated by a large statue at Vercheres, located on the St. Lawrence River? | Famous Canadian Women
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Madeleine de Vercheres. Apologies for not putting the accents on the French names.
In our society a young girl of fourteen is generally still considered a child. In the society that Madeleine grew up in, she would have been considered a young woman at fourteen, almost an adult. In 1699, at the age of fourteen Madeleine was left in charge of Fort de Vercheres. She was responsible for the fort and for the safety of a couple of soldiers, a servant, and her two younger brothers. It was during this time that Madeleine managed to hold and defend the Fort against attacking Iroquois. Due to this act of bravery a statue was erected at the site in her honour. In 1923 Madeleine de Vercheres was nominated a Canadian National Historic Person.
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