Book Compiles Facts About Women

Need to know some facts on women? Then “The 1995 Information Please Women’s Sourcebook,” by Lisa DiMona and Constance Herndon (Houghton Mifflin, $13.95), can probably help.

This women’s almanac, in bookstores nationwide, packs into 591 pages thousands of facts and figures about topics of interest to women. Education, work, child care, health, fertility, sexuality and relationships, divorce and child custody, retirement, politics, violence and safety - right between the covers.