INTERESTING STATISTICS ABOUT WOMEN
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- 43% of women report a sexual dysfunction. (JAMA 1999)
- 1/3 of women report low libido. (JAMA 1999)
- 50% of marriages end in divorce. (Census Bureau, www.divorcereform.org/rates.html)
- 3000 couples get divorced each day. (CDC)
- Infidelity estimates in US range from 20-50% (Lampe, P.E. (Ed). Adultery
in the United States: Close encounters of the Sixth (or Seventh) kind.
Buffalo: Prometheus Books 1987.
- One estimate rates the % of Americans who would have an affair in their
lifetime to be as high as 70% (Marriage and Divorce Today, June 1, 1987,
cited in Fisher, Helen E. Anatomy of Love: The Natural history of monogamy,
adultery, and divorce.
New York:
WW Norton and Company, Inc., 1992, p. 86.
- Depression affects twice as many women as men
- 1/7 of women will suffer depression in their lifetime (www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm)
- 73% of all psychiatric medications, including antidepressants, are
prescribed to females (American Psychological Association)
- 43 million women take antidepressant medications (Zestra Web site)
- 62% of American women are overweight (CDC, www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/women.htm)
- 4 million American women can be classified as problem drinkers (National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism www.nyu.edu/odae/womenfact.html)
- 1/3 Americans are sleep deprived (sleep 6 or less hours per day) (archives
of internal medicine, www.researchmatters.harvard.edu/story.php?article_id=609)
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