1. Utah > Gender wage gap: 70 cents per dollar (4th worst) > Poverty rate, women: 13.6% (13th lowest) > Pct. in state legislature: 16.3% (6th lowest) > Infant mortality rate: 5.0 per 1,000 births (2nd lowest)
Utah is the worst state for women. Less than 31% of management positions were held by women in Utah, the second lowest rate nationwide. Women were also less likely than women in the vast majority of states to hold leadership roles in government. Of the 75 seats in the state’s House of Representatives, just six were filled by women last year. And there were just five female state-level senators. In all, women made up just 16.3% of state legislators, less than in all but five other states. Perhaps the lack of women in traditionally high-paying management and high-level government occupations has exacerbated the gender pay gap. While a typical man in Utah earned more than $50,000 last year, most women made 70% — or $35,252 — of that figure, nearly the largest pay discrepancy in the country.
posted while drinking beer after my morning run...bad move. thanks for the blue catch. It does mess me up because in the rest of the world red is always associated with socialism and the left while the right is associated with blue (as in blue blooded aristocracy)...Why are we the only country that is calling the left blue?
The article postulates that the pay gap may be exacerbated by the lack of women at upper levels in every career. That may be true, but I would also point out that women who do make it to the upper levels in the attorney/lawyer field just experience an even bigger pay gap. They also suffer lots of sexual harassment.