<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of today's (May 12, 2015) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 20px; -webkit-font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1; font-size: 48px; font-family: 'Chronicle Display A', 'Chronicle Display B', serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Idaho ranks 50th for status of women</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Institute for Women’s Policy Research has released its “Status of Women in the States: 2015” report, and Idaho came out 50<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> among the 50 states and Washington, D.C. for employment and earnings, ranking better than only West Virginia. The study, which compares data on poverty and opportunity, violence and safety, health and well-being, reproductive rights, political participation and work and family, found that Idaho ranked 50<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span>for women’s employment and earnings and 48<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> for reproductive rights, earning F grades in both categories; 43<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">rd</span> for women’s poverty and opportunity, earning a D; and 14<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> for women’s health and well-being, earning a C+.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Idaho ranked 50<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> for the percentage of women who own businesses; 50<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> for the share of women in managerial or professional jobs; 42<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">nd</span> for the percentage of women with health insurance, at 77.7 percent; and 44<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> for its gender-wage ratio, which showed that women earn 75 percent of what men earn, compared to the national average of 78.3 percent. The state’s best rankings were for its low incidence of AIDS among women, ranking 4<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> lowest; low incidence of diabetes, ranking 7<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span>; and low rate of lung cancer deaths among women, ranking 8<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The reports, funded in part by the Ford Foundation, have been issued since 1996 and track data on women at the state, national and international levels. Detailed data is being released each month this spring; the latest showed that in almost every state, women are more likely to experience poor mental health than a decade ago, but less likely to die from heart disease and breast cancer. The full report is <a href="http://statusofwomendata.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;">online here</a>.</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Unknown </span></p></div></div></div><div><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div></div></body></html>