Victoria’s Read

Women accounted last year for 51% of the 574,000 professional positions in business and finance, a big jump from 38% in 1987.

Females now hold 55% of all professional occupations in health care, where they are the firm majority among physicians, specialists and managers. That’s a rise from 48% in 1987.

Women make up 67% of the country’s 716,000 teachers and professors.

Women make up only 40% of the country’s 230,000 cooks and chefs, 39% of the nation’s gas station and grocery store attendants and 38% of those in manufacturing.

Source: hrblog.goldbeck.com

Mrs Santa Clause was first introduced to the world in the book “Goody Santa Claus On A Sleigh Ride” by poet Katherine Lee Bates.

In Bates’ 1889 book, Mrs. Claus is taken along in the annual Christmas Eve toy delivery sleigh ride with Santa. Sadly, when they come to one little boy’s modest house, Santa emerges from the chimney with a tear on his cheek. The only stocking the little boy had to hang by the fireplace had a hole in it, and he was unable to fill it with any presents. Seeing an opportunity to save the day, Mrs. Claus jumps down the chimney and mends the little boy’s stocking.

~Men change their minds two to three times more often than women. Most women take longer to make a decision than men do, but once they make a decision they are more likely to stick to it.

~Women are better than men at remembering faces, especially of females.

~Women are more pessimistic when predicting their work results.

~Women are more fearful and anxious than men

Women’s Biggest Pet Peeves with Men

1. Not calling when you say you will
2. Not offering to pay
3. Doing lame car tricks
4. Wearing shirts that look like they’d fit your five year old brother
5. Popped collars
6. Guys who have too perfect a tan in the middle of winter
7. Wearing shorts that nearly drag on the ground
8. Unbuttoned shirts with exposed chest hair
9. Guys who reminisce about their glory days of high school

-During the 19th century, factory workers were primarily young, single women

-In 2004, one in six girls enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.

-The thong accounts for 25% of the women’s underwear market

-A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous

~ In the early years of the blues, from 1910 to 1925, the vast majority of singers were women.

~ In 1770, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament.

~On Nov. 26, 1916 birth control activist Margaret Sanger was arrested for distributing birth control information.

~In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.

-Women were not allowed to compete in track and field events at the Olympics until 1928

-Donald Walker’s book, Exercise for Ladies, warns women against horseback riding, because it deforms the lower part of the body.

-Women often wrote under pen names in times when it was not seen as appropriate for them to contribute to literature.

Today, 71% of moms with kids under 18 work. In 1975, fewer than 47% did.

In almost every country in the world, the life expectancy for women is higher than men.

The two highest IQs ever recorded, through standardized testing, both belong to women

At the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924, the only event open to women was figure skating

~A woman’s arthritic pains will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant. No one knows why.

~The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

~Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

~You lose 26 calories if you kiss for a minute and 260 if you did it for 10 minutes.

~The first naked man women see is ‘Ken’

~The average number of items in a typical woman’s bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

~According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.

~Depression is the most common cause of disability in women and approximately 25% of all women will experience severe depression at some point in their lives.