* Society still tells girls they have a choice as to whether or not they will work for pay. Yet, women are nine times as likely as men to be single parents.

* Nine out of ten women work for pay at some time during their lives. Eight out of ten women between the ages of 20 and 44 were working in 1995. (Today more than ever before women are working.)

* By paying attention to girls’ educational achievements and career aspirations we will ensure that women can have economic security, a better quality of life, and more career choices. We will also reduce the need for social welfare; since most families in poverty are headed by women with inadequate education.

* Women who choose nontraditional careers can expect to have lifetime earnings that are 150% of women who choose traditional careers.

* Females continue to be clustered into traditionally female occupations.

* If present trends continue and girls are not encouraged into math and science and computer programming, they will be trained only for data and information-retrieval capabilities of the computer. These are still secretarial/clerical skills, and females will remain at the low end of the service-oriented pay scale.

* Excluding sales, the highest paying occupations will be those requiring the highest technical skills, such as: computer systems analysts, programmers, engineers, technicians, and repair and service people. 90% of the jobs today’s kindergartners will be doing when they reach adulthood do not even exist today.

Source: www.academic.org/work.html