Florida 9th Worst State For Women's Equality: Study

FLORIDA — The State of Florida placed a disappointing 42nd in a new study measuring how each state scores in women's equality issues. WalletHub used 16 separate factors to make the measurement, coming up with three main scores: workplace environment, education and health, and political empowerment, in which Florida placed 7th, 47th and 31st, respectively.

WalletHub measured factors like disparities in income, executive positions, work hours, education attainment, political representation and more. New York grabbed the top spot in equality, followed by Minnesota and Maine. Utah was by far the worst, followed by Idaho at second worst, then Texas, according to the study.

At 7th, Florida placed fairly well in the workplace environment category, meaning women in the state are more likely to have more equal wages and executive positions, and less likely to have problems with unemployment and job security than in most other states.

Education and health, on the other hand, is a major problem for women in Florida. WalletHub equally weighed levels of disparity in advanced degrees, math test scores and doctor visit affordability, and Florida came in 47th place.

As for political empowerment, Florida placed below the middle of the pack at 31st in factors like share of women lawmakers in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House and state-level governing bodies.

Check out WalletHub's interactive map below.

To get all this information, they used U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Women's Law Center, National Center for Educational Statistics, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and Center for American Women & Politics.

Below is a video by WalletHub on their study:

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