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Catherine Rampell, ”A Female Parliamentary Majority in Just One Country: Rwanda,” New York Times, Economix blog, March 9, 2010, economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/women-underrepresented-in-parliaments-around-the-world/; Inter-Parliamentary Union, ”Women in National Parliaments.”

222 only 7 percent of corporate boards in the world

”A Guide to Womenomics,” Economist.

223 have also fallen below the replacement rate

Steven Philip Kramer, ”Baby Gap: How to Boost Birthrates and Avoid Demographic Decline,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2012.

224 The U.S. birthrate fell to an all-time low in 2011

Terence P. Jeffrey, ”CDC: U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low; 40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women,” CNS News, October 31, 2012, cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-us-birth-rate-hits-all-time-low-407-babies-born-unmarried-women.

225 64 million by 2100

Bryan Walsh, ”j.a.pan: Still Shrinking,” Time, August 28, 2006.

226 career paths after having children, and other benefits

Kramer, ”Baby Gap.”

227 now once again nearly at their replacement rate of fertility

Ibid.

228 not yet been able to slow their fertility declines

Ibid.

229 greater per capita expense of U.S. health care

Simon Rogers, ”Healthcare Spending Around the World, Country by Country,” Guardian, June 30, 2012; Harvey Morris, ”U.S. Healthcare Costs More Than 'Socialized' European Medicine,” International Herald Tribune, June 28, 2012.

230 year 2000 are projected to live past the age of 100