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<p>Best and Worst Cities for Women<br>
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itemprop="name">Evan Comen</span></a></span> <span
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content="2017-09-01T06:00:53+00:00">September 1, 2017 6:00 am
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<p>Gender inequality remains a matter of fact in the United States.
Women earn roughly 80 cents on the dollar compared to their male
counterparts. Many must overcome various stigma related to
parenting responsibilities, gender roles, and their participation
in the job market. On the other hand, women are more likely to
live longer, and they are more likely to have a college degree.</p>
<p>These challenges and benefits play out differently across the
country, and being a female in one major metropolitan area can be
meaningfully different than in another, with different prospects
and outlook. A job market with a severe gender wage gap can make
life hard for women and girls, as can a city with widespread
poverty, poor health, and subpar public education.</p>
<p>24/7 Wall St. reviewed multiple measures of quality of life, both
those that apply to women specifically, and those that apply to
populations in general, to identify the best and worst cities for
women. These included each city’s gender pay gap, as well as
college attainment, life expectancy, and insurance rates for
women, and the share of 3- and 4-year olds enrolled in Pre-K.</p>
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<p><strong>5. Idaho Falls, ID</strong><br>
<strong>> Female earnings as pct. of male:</strong> 52.6%<br>
<strong>> Female bachelor’s degree attainment:</strong> 25.9%<br>
<strong>> Pre-school enrollment:</strong> 28.1%</p>
<p>In addition to being instrumental in childhood development, pre-K
programs give parents — usually the mother — the opportunity to
leave their children somewhere safe during the day so they can
hold a job. Idaho is one of only a handful states that do not
offer state-funded preschool, and partially as a result, only
28.1% of 3 and 4-year-olds in the state are enrolled in preschool,
one of the smallest shares of any U.S. metro area.</p>
<p>Few parts of the country have as wide a gender pay gap as Idaho
Falls does. Women earn only 53 cents for every dollar men earn
across all occupations. In managerial positions, the pay gap is
even wider. Women earn about a quarter of what men do in
managerial positions.</p>
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