1 A World War II study showed that a WAC cost the Army $77 less per year than a man; in a March 1973 study a woman cost $348 less than a man; by 1978, a woman cost $621 less than a man, including medical and retirement costs. ODWAC Ref File, Costs, CMH.
2 Unemployment rates: 1974, 5.6%; 1975, 8.5%; 1976, 7.7%; 1977, 7%; 1979, 5.8%; 1980, 7.1%; 1981, 7.6%; 1982, 9.7%. US Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States (Washington, DC: GPO, 1982), p. 375.