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Facts About Women and Girls

1. Alan Guttmacher Institute. (1998). U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics. New York, NY: Author.

2. Catalyst. (1998). 1998 Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners. New York, NY: Author.

3. Center for American Women in Politics. (1998). Women who will serve in the 106th Congress. New Brunswick, NJ: Author.

4. Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR). (1998). The Status for Women in the States ' 1998. Washington, DC: Author. [http://www.iwpr.org/POLPAR.HTM]

5. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (1998, September). Current Population Reports, P60-200, Money Income in the United States: 1997. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.

6. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (1995). Statistical Abstract of the United States 1995. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.

7. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (1996). Statistical Abstract of the United States 1996. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.

8. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (1998). Statistical Abstract of the United States 1998. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.

9. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (1998). Table 1. Age, Gender, Household Relationship, Race and Hispanic Origin 1 Poverty Status of People by Selected Characteristics in 1997 (Numbers in thousands). Washington, DC: Author. [http://ferret.bls.census.gov/macro/031998/pov/new1_001.htm]

10. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (1998). Youth risk behavior surveillance ' United States, 1997. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 47(SS-3).

11. U.S. Department of Labor. (1998). Employment and Earnings, 45(1).

12. U.S. House of Representatives. (1999). Current Congressional profile of the 106th Congress. Washington, DC: Author. [http://clerkweb.house.gov/mbrcmtee/stats.htm]

13. Women's Bureau. (1998, April). Women's Earnings as a Percent of Men's, 1979-1997. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor.