What really scares me on Halloween.....

In honor of Halloween, here are a few truly scary statistics about the status of women in the United States:

In 2005, women's median annual earnings were only $.77 for every dollar earned by men. For women of color, the gap is even worse – only $.71 for African American women and $.58 for Latinas. At the same time, in 2006 women comprised 46% of the total U.S. labor force and are projected to account for 47% of the labor force in 2014.

Approximately 78 percent of HIV-infected women are people of color. Although African Americans and Hispanics represented only 26 percent of the U.S. population in 2001, they accounted for 66 percent of adult AIDS cases and 82 percent of pediatric AIDS cases reported in the first half of that year.

One in five children go to bed hungry in our country and good luck finding quality, affordable childcare or life/work balance as a working mother.

And last, but certainly not least, women still hold only 87, or 16.3%, of the 535 seats in the 110th US Congress. Now that’s scary!