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Some Figures for Women's Day

Some Figures for Women's Day:
— 18.3% of congressional seats are held by women and 23% of statewide elective offices are held by women;
— at Berklee: 68% male, 32% female; 
— women make up only 9% of directors among the top 250 domestic grossing films; they comprise just 12% of directors among the top 500; 
— the US is the only industrialized nation that does not have a paid parental leave policy mandated by law; fully paid maternity leave is only offered by around 16 percent of employers in the US; 
— as of 2010 women in the United States earned about 81% of what their male counterparts did; 
— every 9 seconds in the US, a woman is assaulted or beaten.
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