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West Virginia women rank last for salary, employment
The Charleston GazetteThursday, September 4, 2014
West Virginia women rank last for salary, employment
By Mackenzie Mays, Staff writer
West Virginia women make less money than most other women in the country, according to a report released Thursday.
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research ranked West Virginia last in the United States when it comes to women’s employment and earnings, based on factors including annual income, the male-female wage gap, the number of women in the workforce and the number of women in managerial and professional occupations.
The median annual income for full-time female workers is $30,000 in West Virginia, and women in the state make about 66 cents for every dollar that a man earns, according to the report.
Fewer than half of women in West Virginia are employed outside the home, while fewer than 40 percent of women who are employed are in a managerial or professional occupation....
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