Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have the worst gender equality of all U.S. states, with Massachusetts, California and Maine being the best.
A new study has revealed the U.S. states where it is much harder to be a woman than a man.Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have the greatest level of gender inequality, according to a new paper in PLoS ONE.This was determined by a new tool that reveals that there is a large variation in attitudes regarding key gender issues like abortion, the #MeToo social movement, and party politics between U.S. states.
However, the GII in this study only looks at inequality at a countrywide level.The new tool introduced in the paper adapts this index to compare individual U.S. states with one another.They discovered that Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have the least equality between men and women, followed by Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Wyoming.
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