Alcanzando Metas Foundation

Question:
Hispanic Women in the US

• Hispanic women are leading a significant and powerful trend in America today!
• Hispanic Women are the fastest growing business segment, are entering the workforce in record numbers, and are making a statement as they run for political office and are appointed to boards and commissions
• Hispanic Womrn also represent 62% of the $720 billion purchasing power of U.S.
• Hispanic Women have surpassed, Hispanic men in graduate enrollment. From 1983 and 2002, the percent of working women in jobs classified as managerial or professional has increased 33.7%
• Forty-six-point-one percent (46.1%) of married Hispanic mothers with children under age 3 were in the labor force in 2002
• The Hispanic 5-to19 year old population is projected to grow from 11 million in 2005 to 16 million in 2020.
• Hispanic females’ population includes 205 million women (13.6% of the total US female population); represent slightly less than half or 48% of the total Hispanic Population.
• Females age 25 to 44 represent the largest voting segment of Hispanic voters. Of the 13.1 million Hispanic Females, 63% held citizenship in 2004, of which 60% (5 million) registered to vote.83% of registered Hispanic women, voted in 2004 presidential elections .(Hispan Telligence, 2005)
  
  

Question:
What are the dropout rates of high school students?

Response:
The status dropout rate represents the percentage of an age group that is not enrolled in school and has not earned a high school credential (i.e., diploma or equivalent, such as a General Educational Development [GED] certificate). According to this measure, 10 percent of 16- through 24-year-olds were out of school without a high school credential in 2004. The status dropout rate declined for this age group between 1972 and 2004, including during the more recent period of 1990 to 2004.

Status dropout rates and changes in these rates over time differ by race/ethnicity. Each year between 1972 and 2004, the status dropout rate was lowest for Whites and highest for Hispanics. The status dropout rates for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics each declined between 1972 and 2004, and they have declined for Whites and Hispanics since 1990. The gaps between the rates of Blacks and Whites and between Hispanics and Whites both decreased from 1972 to 2004, but there was no measurable change in the Hispanic-Black gap over this period.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2006). The Condition of Education 2006 (NCES 2006-071), Indicator 26.