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New York is 9th Best State for Women’s Equality: New Report
Friday is Women's Equality Day in the USA.
With Women’s Equality Day just two days away, a new in-depth analysis of 2016’s Best & Worst States for Women's Equality found New York is doing very well.
The state ranked No. 9 overall, the personal-finance website WalletHub reported.
In order to determine the most gender-egalitarian states, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states across 15 key metrics. The data set ranges from the gap between female and male executives to the disparity between women’s and men’s unemployment rates.
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The metric where New York takes pride of place nowadays isn't exactly good news: New York ranks No. 1 in Unemployment Rate Disparity because women and men are equally unemployed.
On the other hand, New York is one of the worst in terms of leadership. Nearly the worst. Second only to neighboring Connecticut. Among states with the largest executive position disparity, the rankings were:
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No. 46 Illinois
No. 47 New Jersey
No. 48 Massachusetts
No. 49 New York
No. 50 Connecticut
The states with the smallest executive position disparity were:
No. 1 Wyoming
No. 2 Alaska
No. 3 New Mexico
No. 4 Vermont
No. 6 Delaware
However, overall you can see that New York ranks quite high compared to other states.
Women’s Equality in New York (1=Best; 25=Avg.):
- 12th – Earnings Disparity
- 13th – Work Hours Disparity
- 5th – Minimum-Wage Workers Disparity
- 1st – Unemployment Rate Disparity
- 6th – Political Representation Disparity
The country isn't doing so well as a whole. In 2015, the U.S. failed to make the top 10 or even the top 20 of the World Economic Forum’s ranking of the most gender-equal countries — currently in 28th position and falling eight places behind several developing nations since 2014.
Why this, why now?
Aug. 26 was designated “Women’s Equality Day” by Congress in 1971 to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. This was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York.
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IMAGE/ National Women's History Project
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