The Future: six drivers of global change Part 72
205 contribution of women to GDP would be well over 50 percent
Ibid.
206 who work outside the home skyrocketed from 12 percent to 55 percent
Robert R. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and Americas Future (New York: Knopf, 2010), p. 61.
207 rose during the same three decades from 20 to 60 percent
Ibid.
208 all adds up to what Kessler calls "conditioned hyper-eating"
Tara Parker-Pope, "How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains," New York Times, June 23, 2009.
209 playing outside in neighborhoods that, relatively speaking, are p.r.o.ne to more violence
Rebecca Cecil-Carb and Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, "Childhood Body Ma.s.s Index in Community Context: Neighborhood Safety, Television Viewing and Growth Trajectories of BMI," Health and Social Work 34 (March 2009): 16977.
210 partly because of the increased partic.i.p.ation of women in the workforce
United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development Division, Family Unit, 20032004, Major Trends Affecting Families, "Introduction," http://social.un.org/index/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=LJsVbHQC7Ss%3d&tabid=282.
211 between 20 and 30 percent of all divorces
Carl Bialik, "Irreconcilable Claim: Facebook Causes 1 in 5 Divorces," Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2011; Carl Bialik, "Divorcing Hype from Reality in Facebook Stats," Wall Street Journal blog, March 11, 2011, http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/divorcing-hype-from-reality-in-facebook-stats-1046/.
212 Now, only one quarter are
Pew Research Center, "The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families," November 18, 2010, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1802/decline-marriage-rise-new-families.
213 and having children-without getting married
Ibid.
214 are now born to unmarried women
Ibid.
215 were born to unmarried mothers
Ibid.
216 among mothers under thirty is 50 percent
Jason DeParle and Sabrina Tavernise, "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage," New York Times, February 17, 2012.
217 Among African American mothers of all ages
Ibid.
218 the percentage is now 73 percent
Ibid.
219 Iceland, Norway, Finland, and Sweden; the lowest rank goes to Yemen
Hausmann, Tyson, and Zahidi, "The Global Gender Gap Index 2010."
220 the lowest percentage (11.4 percent) in the Arab states
Inter-Parliamentary Union, "Women in National Parliaments," April 30, 2011, http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm.
221 a const.i.tutional requirement that a minimum of 30 percent