Body Image facts:
- Primark have mannequins with protruding ribs
- Debenham's has changed the size of mannequins to the average size 16 British woman.
- Half of all children in a survey said they wanted there body size thinner
- 56% of young girls had controlled there weight in the past year.
- In 1910 models where classed as living mannequins who were named by the dress they wore.
- Fashion writers by 1920 where advocating slimmer figures
- Woman appear to adjust there body shape to appeal to men's desires
- 63% of woman age 18-34 are satisfied with there appearance and 57% between the ages of 35-49.
- Ideal is young, thin, white, toned, large-breasted, long legged, non-disabled.
- nearly 10 million women in the UK "feel depressed" because of the way they look.
- 36% avoid exercise because of insecurities.
- Barbie gives unrealistic body standards
- between 1987-2006 44% of women surveyed had mental disorders
- the number of women who thought of themselves worthless trebled.
- Materialism is the main cause of this increase in mental health.
- "I am an important person" increased from 12% to 80% between 1950 ad 1980
Women in work facts:
- 2.4 children and a husband with a six figure salary is seen to be the american dream
- women working full time increased by 73,000 to reach 8.08 million.
- part time decreased by 53,000 to 5.92 million
- 1.28 million women started owning there own business.
- women born in 1983 have 1.02 children by their 30th birthday
- women born in 1968 have 1.15 children by their 30th birthday
- A woman aged 47 on average has 1.92 children
- The number of cohabiting couples grew by 29.7%
- between 1987-1999 the amount of mental disorders in women increased from 19% to 32%
- Women and men are less stressed out at work than they are at home.
- Women are happier at work than at home
- Mothers who worked steadily full-time through their 20s and 30s reported better mental and physical health at 45,
- Lower incomes have more stress reduction at work.
- High incomes were the only outlier that felt happier at home
- Women are happier at work because they are only providing one role.
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