The 5 Worst States For Women

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Kentucky

Over 77% of the women in the state live in a county without an abortion provider and nearly 20% of the women live in poverty. Not even a quarter of the women in the state have a college degree.

4. West Virginia

Like Kentucky, West Virginia has a tragically low number of women holding college degrees with just 17.8%. Poverty is also a problem with the median income approximately only $29,651. West Virginia is also the only state that doesn’t protect a woman’s right to breast-feed in either public or private.

3. Arkansas

In Arkansas abortion is pretty much legal in name only. Only 3% of the state’s counties offer them. Just about one-quarter of the population doesn’t have health insurance and the median income is only $29,148 a year.

2. Oklahoma

Oklahoma’s attack on reproductive choice has been relentless this legislative session with personhood measures and restrictive anti-abortion measures. The entire region only has six abortion doctors and the state has outlawed insurance coverage for abortion. As it stands 1 in 4 women in the state already live without health insurance and the state does not have a single female elected official in Congress. The good news is Oklahoma’s overreach was just hemmed in by the federal courts.

1. Mississippi

Mississippi women earn the lowest average wages in the country and has never elected a woman to Congress or as governor. 22% of the women of the state live in poverty and 68% of Mississippi women are overweight or obese.



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[Skittles]

1. red states?

SURPRISE SURPRISE

[get the red out]

2. Sigh

Kentucky in the top 5 for misery AGAIN!

Religion trumps humanity here, so far as women's health goes.

[Selatius]

3. Yeah, Mississippi is quasi-third world in a lot of metrics, frankly, and I live here.

If you want to see the future of the United States, come live here in Mississippi. Or, if you rather, if you don't want to see such a future arise, come to Mississippi and use us as an example to fight against.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. I think the evaluating criteria are kind of loose

For example, I did not see any mention of such things as the rates of female homicides and reported rapes/assaults, percentage of women in prison, percentage of single mothers living at or below the poverty level, etc. that could paint a different image of the "misery index" for women in other states. And median incomes may be low in the 5 states in that list, but the cost of living is also usually lower than in other states.

[ananda]

5. Excuse me but...

Texas should be in the top five worst states for women, well, anyone really.

[sadbear]

8. If it weren't for Austin, Texas would probably be #1.

[Cal33]

6. And every single one of these states is in the South. Ye Gods! No wonder!

[izquierdista]

7. You might want to check your geography

Last time I checked, Kentucky and West Virginia were Union states during the Civil War, West Virginia going so far as to secede from Virginia to rejoin the union. They may be poor and backward, but that's the Appalachia showing, not the Confederacy.

[snooper2]

9. Woo Hoo Texas didn't make the list !

I guess that's something to be proud of

[slampoet]

10. Judging women by their weight? wow frikkin progressive.