Hawaii is the best-ranked state for women's equality.Wolfgang Hauke/ShutterstockWalletHub released its ranking of the best and worst states for gender equality in 2024.The study compared disparities between men and women across metrics like income and test scores.Utah is the worst state for gender equality.In June 2024, the World Economic Forum released its "Global Gender Gap Report 2024," which documented the state of gender equality using economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment as its dimensions.The US ranked 43rd, with a score of 0.747 out of 1.0.However, men's and women's experiences can differ greatly from state to state.WalletHub compared these differences in experiences in three categories: workplace environment, political empowerment, and education and health, using 17 metrics, such as income disparity, disparity in advanced educational attainment, and disparity in the share of lawmakers.Outlet analyst Chip Lupo told BI, "The states at the top of the list, they tend to have lawmakers at the state and federal level that support legislation in favor of women's equality, as opposed to those ones at the bottom where there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of progress being made."The data used in WalletHub's report was accurate as of July 22, 2024, and was collected from the US Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Nation's Report Card, and the Center for American Women and Politics, among other sources.From Texas to Hawaii, here are the five worst and five best states for gender equality in 2024.WORST: 5.
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