Pima County/Tucson Women's Commission · 50th Anniversary · 1976 → 2026

The State of Women in Pima County

A 50-Year State-of-Impact Report · 1976 → 2026. Each focus area pairs commentary with a 50-year trend, an Arizona-county comparison, a peer-metro comparison, and the legislation that shaped it — every figure sourced and hyper-focused on Pima County women.
Committee research & preparation: Kim (Economic) · Ashley Rubin (Education & Housing) · Halle (Civic & Voting) · Stephanie Noriega (Health & Safety) · with Lucy Howell & Kimberly Fitch
Badges: 50-yr trend real time series compare Pima / AZ / U.S. / counties Pima now current local value (PHIT) today current figure law policy milestone

How to read the data — and its honest limits

Decades are framed 1976–1985 · 1986–1995 · 1996–2005 · 2006–2015 · 2016–2026. Every 50-yr trend is a real, sourced national series. Pima-specific health and economic figures (from the PHIT Score Card / Census) are current values, not 50-year county series — no agency publishes those back 50 years — so we pair the national trend with Pima's Pima now point. Two series carry notes: intimate-partner violence is nationally comparable only from 1993, and maternal mortality's comparable NCHS series begins 2018. County-level turnout by age/gender is not published below the national level. Nothing here is an invented trend.