Funny Index
Subject: Funny Index
From: Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com>
Date: 6/22/09, 18:47
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Attached. Would love to have mine merge this funny one with a Harpers Index kind of deal.
Since Oprah's magazine theme is "Living your best life" I want it to be factual -- but not a downer.
 
Here are my first points I'd like to add funny ones to: Any ideas?
 

By the Numbers

Scanning the data that defines our lives

 

 

50 % OF THE u.s. LABOR FORCE IS NOW COMPOSED OF WOMEN.

 

 

3 out of every 4 job cuts over the past two years have been for men.

 

One out of every 3 women earns more than her husband.

 

U.S. women’s salaries average 20% less than men’s.

 

Married women report doing 75% of household chores.

 

757,616: Number of childcare centers throughout the country.

 

80% of children younger than 6 who ate dinner with their mother every day.

 

One-third of Baby Boomers in the workplace feel insecure about their positions.

 

1,200 jobseekers applied for 50 free spots at a“Botox Bailout” event recentlyoffered by a Washington, D.C.-based plastic surgeon.